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Your Voice

I used to think I was in love With music and the people those voices belonged to But then I heard you for the first time Realised what I felt before wasn't love Because I know now. I watched you from so far away You didn't even know I existed Today, I'm walking to you Thinking so far back. The world knows your voice is your lifeline They all know there's no you where there's no song But have you ever thought Your voice could become someone else's lifeline I wish you knew because your voice is my lifeline. I watched you sing Through endless hardships To grow into the man you today are Each of those days all along, It was your voice, that soared though the notes But it was my heart, drumming along, Forgetting the hard life. My days' cruelty bled into my nights Haunting my dreams, Pushing me into nightmares. But you pulled me back, every time, Through your song playing by my bed. I then open my eyes And wish you knew, Your voice is ...

Am I teaching or learning?

    The art of teaching holds different values to different people. The results of the act depends on the nature of the receptive side as much as it does on the teacher's.  To be that person, each teacher works differently. So who is a good teacher? Someone who works day and night studying the contents they're gonna teach the next day? Someone who is very kind to the students? Someone who keeps their knowledge updated constantly? But are those who are certified as teachers the only ones who can be called that? I would say "no", because I got the experience both on and off the job.    I found it in teaching my classmates the portions for upcoming exams. I found it in training a friend to talk on stage. A guy only moderately knowledgeable in English with a lot of stage fright, he once asked me how I was able to just up and talk about things on stage. I ended up helping him. There never was much time in the class to talk about it so I extended the training to...