This isn't a Classroom

It’s true, I am a Natural Teacher.

I have been blessed with this natural ability to expound complex subjects,

to empathise with people,

to see things from others eyes,

to understand what it feels like to walk in someone else’s shoes.

to speak in plain English, no jargon, slang or abbreviations.

This makes me the perfect teacher for any subject,

be it music or technology,

I can speak the language of 5 year olds and 95 year olds,

as long as I can understand it from first principles myself, I can teach anything to anyone.

Unfortunately, each gifting comes with another side to it. My natural instinct is to try to instruct everyone. To try and ‘help’ everyone. To try and improve everyone. To tell everyone what to do. What is this impulse? Is it an attempt to make everyone be like me? I hope not!

So, I have to put a guard on my keenness, and realise that I am NOT in a classroom, I am in my car.

If people had paid, and were sitting at my feet wanting instruction, that would give me license to teach, but people are not. They are simply fellow motorists, passengers, shoppers etc, who are getting along with their respective lives, and have no interest in my opinions or my desire to recommend a better way of doing things.

So I choose to relax, let go, and let other people BE. Without any influence from me.

And I’ll keep my teacher instinct to myself, until asked!