Tuesday, January 11, 2011

What A Beautiful Mistake

Today is my BAC Orientation Day 2 and thanks to Mr. Kumar, I heard a great inspiring true story... The story goes like this...

Somewhere in America, there's a secondary school. The teachers in that school are very afraid of a class (lets name it as 'Alamak Class') because the students are gangster-like and uninterested to study. Normal pupils bring books and stationery to school, they bring knifes and all kind of 'weird' things...

One day, the teacher-in-charge of Alamak Class needs a maternity leave, so the school finds another teacher to replace her and manage to find one, Ms.XX. Ms. XX who doesn't know what kind of class she's going to teach, went to school early the next morning.

She stopped at the front door of Alamak Class and read a paper sticked on the door with names and numbers.
AAA - 162
BBB - 102
CCC - 134
DDD - 92

"WOW! I don't know I'm going to teach students with such high IQ..." she thought and started to feel nervous as she walked into the empty classroom. When the school bell rang, a male student came in, wearing a torn jeans, comb his hair like Dragon Ball and put on a think eyeliner... And she thought "Wah~ Genius do has some special sense of fashion." Then another student came in with empty hands and she thought "OMG~ Even I still need to refer to books, he doesn't need any."

When all the students have arrived, she said to them: "It's such an honour to teach you all. I'm not here just to teach u all, but also hope to learn from you all." Though there's giggles going around the class but when Ms. XX started to teach, they started to listen for their first time and find studying quite interesting.They even went to the library and surf the net to do their project and in fact, Alamak Class has the best grades and did the best project among the other classes.

The headmaster asked: "It's such a miracle... What did u do?"
Ms. XX replied: "I did nothing!!!! It's themselves... Honestly, they're too smart for their age."
"What do u mean?"
"I read the paper sticked on their door and saw their IQ level. It really amazed me."
"Err, Ms. XX. That's their locker number."
"..."

Let's think about the story...
If Ms. XX - 1) knew they aren't geniuses, but a bunch of gangsters who love fighting more than studying
                   2) treated them like they used to be treated or I should say, ignore them
Will the story still be the same? It probably won't... If you understand this story, you'll surely understand the following confusing-but-not-so-confusing lines...


I am not who I think I am,
I am not who you think I am,
I am who I think, you think, I am.



 

For those who are having brain stuck right now, here is the solution...
It meant we will become what we think ppl think of us...
Because Ms. XX treated Alamak Class students like normal students, so they became a student...