A former student asked me a question via FB and added a line about how he, along with everyone else, loves me. I replied that I gave a midterm to my current classes and the scores weren't that good. In this culture love = A, not "did I learn something in the class?"
He replied, "Seriously, your reputation is very good among students that it makes me sometimes jealous of you .. and you deserve it."
I appreciate the comment. Before coming here I couldn't fathom anyone, anywhere being jealous of me. Since I've come to see the laborers working in horrible conditions for $200/month I realize that, yeah, they might be jealous of me.
As a guy who is broke, single (dateless for 20 years) and balding? Yeah, it's hard for me to imagine anyone being jealous of me.
Queue Sesame Street music....
ReplyDeleteWaaaa...waaaaa...waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!
OK...that was mean. But I betcha smiled a bit!
Trav
I agree with both of you. I have low self-esteem on everything BUT my ability to speak in public. As to speaking in public I don't know where I got it from - surely not my father but probably not even my mother - but I am very comfortable teaching.
ReplyDeleteI also know that Trav's right for mocking me. Somewhere close to 4 billion people on this planet would LOVE to have my problems. (I hold out the possibility that 2 billion have it better than me.)