Love For Our Teachings
The schools and colleges we attended formed part of our upbringing.
The teachings we received, apart from academics, were transformative because of the discipline and overall life lessons.
Our Teachers Guided Our Lives
We were so extremely fortunate to have wonderful teachers who treated us and cared for us like their own children.
We were always reminded that our time well spent was an investment in our future. Our teachers made sure to try to fulfill that mandate with tasks that seemed to us overbearing. But it was really a lesson in stepping out of our comfort zone.
I can say now, that it paid rich dividends. It made us boys into men. We are more because of their steadfast guidance.
Caring Parents
What can also be said of parents and guardians who sacrificed so much for our education and growth?
Their tireless support was only appreciated as we grew up, and saw through the eyes of an adult. We knew then the extent of their love.
Payback
Our parents, guardians, and teachers are owed eternal gratitude.
Receiving such is still a small measure in comparison to the overwhelming support, devotion, and stewardship they gave us.
How Can We Repay Them?
How can we really repay our parents, guardians, and teachers? Only by returning the rich dividends of their toils and labors in shaping us into adulthood.
What have we become?
What have we built upon the rock-solid foundation we received from them?
With all the teachings and higher learning we received, how can we now repay?
We can do such repayment by using our ongoing constant mental development, and our eye-opening spiritual enlightenment.
Advancing Society
When we give back to humanity, we are in essence contributing to our brothers and sisters' upliftment. By supporting community we advance society overall.
With such reasoning, we help our very own selves. Meaning the present situations and circumstances we are beset by in our everyday living, we find meaningful ways to forge ahead.
We learn to sacrifice, toil, labor, and be true stewards of our finite resources.
We have become parents, guardians, and teachers like our very own parents, guardians, and teachers.
What a wholesome and wonderful way to pay tribute to our parents, guardians, and teachers.
However, we must raise the bar. By doing so, we evolve higher, so that successive generations learn to adapt and grow meaningfully.
Our Ultimate Goal
Our ultimate goal is to advance civilization by taking care of our neck of the woods. Joining together and doing our part is all it takes.
We have become a full circle of forefathers, grands, fathers, mothers, guardians, teachers, us, our children, and grandchildren.
We have a creative force that engineered this constant, ongoing arrangement of life - God.
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28
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