It’s always nice to talk to more and more people. Especially
from those you can learn from and those who can learn from you. Teaching is my
passion and I have had strong bond with all my students. I have kept that
relationship very strong with my students and I always am there to lend a hand
whenever they reach out to me. They get in touch for personal or professional
issues and I feel that I should always be there for them. It’s a special
relationship that is built on something different from everyday life. I treasure
it.
Yesterday I was invited by one of my students to give a
lecture to his team on the stuff we do on digital and the way I see digital
progressing. And his is a digital agency to start with. I have come a long way
in the last three years. I have invested most of professional life and
practically staked my career on digital. Digital is it. The problem now is
getting the other idiots to recognize the value of what I see in digital. But that
is another story. It was a nice talk (I think) that I gave and I think it was
well received. I have learnt to talk and crack a whole host of jokes while
doing so. It just gets the engagement levels going up.
Afterwards the best bit was talking to the student who has
now grown up to be a fine business man leading a team of 100. We were talking
about various things in life. The nice bit is always when your student grows up
and the conversation is from one adult to another. It’s no longer a top down
talk a teacher would have with a student. The healthy respect is still there but
fundamentally its an adult adult talk on various aspects of life.
One of the things he said was that he loved this blog of
mine. To which I said that I don’t know. These days the blog has been floundering
a bit. As I explained to him I realized that the blog seemed to have lost its
voice. I think the blog has had different tones of voice over the years. To my
mind there have been three so far. Now it needs to find a new voice for itself,
for myself. Of course the thing is that parenting is going to be difficult. And
it will have new challenges. That’s old hat. I have said that a million times
there is nothing new about it. But there is so much else to be talking about.
So many incidents to share, so much else to think aloud on. These days my
opinions have been tempered, so what they still are there… lets bring them out.
Another thing I realized that I was so happy to see him
married and settled. I loved to talk to him and his wife (who runs the business
with him). I almost have paternal instincts with my students. Any guy who
marries anyone I think – that a nice bride he has got and hopefully she will
take care of him. And any female student marries, I think what an ass of a guy
she got, I hope he takes care of her. I don’t think Jasmine understood this
when I explained this to her. I think it’s a fatherly thing.
So now – I have to find my new voice. Let me try and not get
too serious. Let me try and speak about various other things in my life. There are
so many things to talk about, speak about and blog about. Let me try and
discover my ‘now voice’.
Because most of all I need to enjoy my blogs. It can’t be
tiresome bore that it became in the last few months. Complete bakwas. I normally
don’t read my own blog ever. I must never ever read any entry of mine but I can’t
not have fun writing it. So let’s try and get a new voice. Let’s try and write
some random stuff. Let’s see where it leads us. Can I get a new voice of my
own?
