Musings

Since having a blog I have also taken interest in reading other people's blogs.. Well, it hasn't been that many but enough to make me realise that generally bloggers are good writers! The one I'm referring to are my students (cuz their blogs are mostly what I read..) Guess that's why they write the blogs in the first place. Anyway it's great to know that they write good stuff in their blogs, that they have insight, are reflective and are quite expressive.. Then I think of my blog and feel ashamed as I seem to be my only audience so far.. plus I don't know whether I have insight and am being `deep' or anything like that.. Yet I continue writing for it has become an outlet to pour my thoughts and feelings which has all become a little therapeutic for me at times when I need to just express myself. So.. don't judge me ok readers? (if you're reading this!)

This is usually something people don't want to think about, yet everyone will face it one day. Thinking of it is actually called for in Islam so that one will live their life more carefully knowing the fact that life on earth doesn't last forever. I believe that I think of it occasionally if not often.. not in a way that makes me all worked up but it comes across me in some situations. I pray that I will die in peace and in a good way. There is a doa' I recite after prayers that asks that from God.. Anyway, I was just observing this yesterday when I went to visit my late grandmother's and aunt's grave, that people tend to die after their birthdays.. I mean like 2 or 3 months after. I was looking at other people's tombstones and reading the names and dates they had died and made this conclusion.. I think I've noticed this for quite some time too - not by visiting graves.. But then again one can't really say this for sure because death can come without any...

A defininition from the net: What is meant by Occupational Hazards? Every occupation is associated with certain risks because of which the person can get 1. Certain diseases 2. Injuries, etc. This can happen suddenly or may take years. In simple words - "Occupational Hazards" mean damage to health or injuries at work place. Ok, the teaching profession is certainly not one where you can get hurt - physically. Or contract diseases.. unless you get infected by other tchrs or stdnts sickness.. Or if you fall down a flight of stairs - which I know someone has experienced.. Yet, in my almost 11 teaching years, I think most teachers can vouch for this too, that they can get themselves `injured' still.., if not often, at least several times in their teaching careers.. And what gets injured? Their heart . This is probably my week of an outpouring of emotions and so my heart seems a little fragile. I don't think I'm overreacting nor am I being irrational w...