Friends are the source of Inspiration

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આ ચાર વર્ષના મારા શિક્ષકજીવન દરમિયાન મારી પાસે કેટલાય વિદ્યાર્થીઓ આવ્યા. કેટલાક હોશિયાર આવ્યા અને કેટલાક ઠોઠ આવ્યા. એમાં મારી પાસે એક વિદ્યાર્થી એવો વ્યો કે જેને અંગ્રેજી વાંચતાં કે લખતાં આવડતું ન હતું. અંગ્રેજીના મૂળાક્ષરો પણ તે ઓળખી શકતો નહી. મેં તેને અંગ્રેજી શિખવાડવાનો ઘણો જ પ્રયાસ કર્યો પણ તેને અંગ્રેજી વાંચતાં કે લખતાં આવડ્યું નહી. આ પ્રયાસ બે વર્ષ સુધી ચાલ્યો, તો પણ તે શીખી શક્યો નહીં. છેવટે મેં હિમ્મત ગુમાવી અને વિચાર્યું કે હવે વધારે મહેનત કરવી નથી.

આટલી મહેનત બીજા વિદ્યાર્થી પાછળ કરીશ તો ફળશે પણ ખરી! મેં આવું વિચાર્યું એના બે દિવસ પછી મારો મિત્ર કુણાલ વરિયા મને મળ્યો. મારો આ મિત્ર અમદાવાદની બી.એડ. કોલેજમાં અભ્યાસ કરે છે. તેની કોલેજની વાત કરતા તેણે જણાવ્યું કે ત્યાં તેમને એક અભણ બાળકને ભણાવવાનું કાર્ય સોંપવામાં આવે છે. એમની તાલીમ પામી જેટલું બાળક વધારે હોશિયાર થાય તે પ્રમાણે તેમની યોગ્યતા અને ગુણ નક્કી થાય છે. મારા મિત્રએ કહ્યું કે તેણે એક અંધ બાળકને ભણાવવાનું કામ પોતાના હાથમાં સ્વેરછાએ લીધું છે. જે ખરેખર એક મોટો પડકાર છે.

અંધ બાળકને ભણાવવાનું અને તે પણ જે અભણ હોય! મારા મિત્રે કહ્યું કે જો આ બાળક પોતાનું નામ લખતા પણ શીખશે તો તેનું શિક્ષકજીવન સાર્થક થઇ જશે. તેની આ વાત સાંભળી મને એક નવી જ પ્રેરણા મળી. મારા અધૂરા પ્રયાસ અને નિષ્ફળતા સામે મને તેનો દ્રઢ નિશ્ચય અને આત્મવિશ્વાસ હિમાલય કરતા પણ વધુ અડગ લાગ્યા. મને એક નવી જ પ્રેરણા, નવી જ ચેતના મળી અને મેં પેલા ઠોઠ વિદ્યાર્થીને બમણા ઉત્સાહથી અને આત્મવિશ્વાસથી ભણાવવાનું ચાલુ કર્યું. હવે મને ખરેખર સમજાય કે મિત્રો ખાલી હરવા-ફરવા કે ટોળટપ્પા કરવા નથી હોતા. મિત્રો પ્રેરણાનું ઝરણું હોઇ શકે છે. પ્રેરણાનો સ્ત્રોત હોઇ શકે છે.

- અભિષેક સુરેશચંદ્ર સોની, બેજલપુર.

Taken from "આહા! જિંદગી" of Divya bhaskar.
you can read the same by following link also
http://www.divyabhaskar.co.in/article/SPL-soft-plant-turn-them-turn-1111782.html

How to save PAPER (How to save TREEs)?

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3R is the best tool to do that.
1st R : Reduce
2nd R : Reuse
3rd R : Recycle

1. what is the need of "reduce" and how we can achieve that ?
#In the process of not using polythene bags we are using paper bags unnecessarily more. and the pity is that we are feeling ourselves ecofriendly by doing so.
what we should do then ? Dont we have Fabric bags at our home ? use them for shopping. while going out make habit of keeing one fabric bag (folded bad certainly will not take much of your space) with you.
#Good documentation is the key of saving papers. If you do it in hard copies then also if you document it properly no need to print everytime you need the same paper and if you can do it in soft properly ,I mean to say in your computer perhaps no need of printing even.
now this always happens with all of us, that while taking any print we knew that this is already taken but dont know where it is ? and we are taking again. we can minimise it.

2. How to do reuse? we can take back to back print outs, we all use rough pads at our work stations try to bunch your own void official prints and use the blank side of those or if they are in the good condition then even use them for printing.

3. How to help in recyling? any piece of paper should not go to dustbin. make habit of keeping one bag or bin at your home of in office where you can through any paper. instead of tearing of any paper just through it in that bin or bag. It will give you some 5-10 RS. at the month end and importantaly you channel them on the way of recycling by selling them to "scrap vendor" (KABADI).

3R is the very handy and practicle tool to save papers and to save our mother earth.

I inspired by one of my friend Jay's written topic, The topic is having some more statistical data related to paper use.
you can read it by given link.

http://jaybhatia.blogspot.com/2010/06/saving-is-good-habbit-lets-start-with.html
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What is this?

An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window.

The Father asked his Son, "What is this?"

The Son replied "It is a crow".

After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, "What is this?"

The Son said "Father, I have just now told you "It's a crow".

After a little while, the old Father again asked his Son the 3rd time,

What is this?"

At this time some expression of irritation was felt in the Son's tone when he said to his Father with a rebuff. "It's a crow, a crow".

A little after, the Father again asked his Son t he 4th time, "What is this?"

This time the Son shouted at his Father, "Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times 'IT IS A CROW'. Are you not able to understand this?"

A little later the Father went to his room and came back with an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son was born. On opening a page, he asked his Son to read that page. When the son read it, the following words were written in the diary :-

"Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window. My Son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied to him all 23 times that it was a Crow. I hugged him lovingly each time h e asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel irritated I rather felt affection for my innocent child".

While the little child asked him 23 times "What is this", the Father had felt no irritation in replying to the same question all 23 times and when today the Father asked his Son the same question just 4 times, the Son felt irritated and annoyed.

So..

If your parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at them as a burden, but speak to them a gracious word, be cool, obedient, humble and kind to them. Be considerate to your parents.From today say this aloud, "I want to see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child. They have always showered their selfless love on me.

They crossed all mountains and valleys without seeing the storm and heat to make me a person presentable in the society today".

Say a prayer to God, "I will serve my old parents in the BEST way. I will say all good and kind words to my dear parents, no matter how they behave.