My Expressions

How do you spell love? You don’t spell love. You feel it.” — Piglet, Winnie the Pooh 

“Children question and challenge everything- every stance, every argument, every decision. Every statement I make in class is met with a thousand questions and that is why I keep going back. Humans need to be questioned more and our children need to be given a platform, the opportunity to question because honestly, they often go unheard. 

I teach in Mohili village MPS which is in Asalpha, in Mumbai and I have 69 kids in my class. 

One year of the Fellowship has taught me how every child just longs to be seen and heard. Sometimes we forget to listen because we’re in a rush to ‘help’ them. But, step back. Listen. Really listen to them especially if they finally trust you enough to let you into their little safe space.

There are days when they want to speak to you and then there are days where you just sit silently next to them as they weep. No one tells you what to tell your 14-year-old as you see them slowly lose all hope for the world around them. But then, no one tells you how they’re going to be stronger than you’d ever imagine them to be, how they’ll come in the next day with the biggest smile and the warmest hug because they still believe. They believe that the education they are getting will help bring good things to their life. They believe this daily interaction within the classroom will help them understand the world a little better and help them learn to love better. They believe in facing their realities and fighting for the ones they care for along the way. These kids would never leave anyone behind. My time with them is more about learning, how pure love as a verb can be and how much adults can learn from children about the world; to change it and make it less cruel.

There’s so much going on right now and being able to have my days filled with little children who empathize and accept differences the way they do, has me believing in love, in hope and in the good, too.”

#NowMoreThanEver

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