Happy Teacher’s Day Master Shifu !!

Syeda Reeha Quasar
3 min readSep 4, 2020

All the efforts and hard work you’ve invested to bring out the best in us can never be repaid in mere words. You have a very special power of inspiring young people like me. We need more teachers like you in our schools and colleges. We can only feel grateful for having a teacher like you! You taught us like a teacher, protected us like our parents, and guided us like a mentor. You truly deserve this day so much. Happy teacher’s day to my most beloved and respected teacher!

Being part of a new environment with the most amazing people and a new master — Master Shifu. Just wondering who this person is and what’s the reason behind this name. Starting off as a mere student with no prior knowledge and trying to speak up among others and now being a part of the most amazing group of people with a belief that I will behold my destiny and will achieve and acquire what I dream of.

Let’s start with how it all began…

Meeting the master who sounded really strict and cold, to whom I was afraid to ask any doubt or even answer a question whose answer I would know. I would always fear what will he say will he scold me too… Yet gathering the courage and not caring for the consequences I started to speak up. I believed tried to ask my doubts and guess what I did get scolded but not for a no reason but for my mistakes…

I did get scolded many times I did got disheartened (being a really sensitive person which I am yet improving upon) and determined not to speak a few times but after some time I did understand the reason behind his each and every scolding and this made me remember those mistakes for a lifetime. Its rightly said we learn from our mistakes and we tend to remember better if we do mistakes.

Life is too harsh and we have to pave our path this is what one of my mentors taught me ze told everyone has their own way of teaching and saying things which we may not be accustomed to but the intentions were never wrong. I did reflect on these lines and have made a better understanding of there are a lot of things we assume and are never said just due to language barrier or miscommunication.

I tried to gain as much knowledge as I can from you by attending each and every optional class hoping to be a better me and will continue to do so. Speaking things without listening, being anxious to convey my part are some of the things I did improve upon. I am learning and will be learning on the journey ahead and would love to be able to think and code like you.

Also, I would like to mention there is one more character Acharya Raghvendra who I think is really similar to you.

I am still a bit scared yet comfortable now talking to you master Shifu about my doubts and difficulties. You have taught me an efficient way of learning and a lot about life as well. I really hope we are able to change the education system for the better and you get a lot more pandas like us.

I wish you a long and successful life ahead. You really are one of the most amazing teachers I have ever met.

This opportunity was really precious for me to able to get to know you and believe me I will behold my destiny. I really hope to meet you soon in person.

Amen

I would have made some mistakes here as well and I would love to know them and improve upon them as well.

Happy teacher’s day !!

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Syeda Reeha Quasar

Enthusiast, Environmentalist, Learner, Optimist and Egalitarian. Loves to explore different fields and experiment.