Sunday 22 September 2024
Trust keeps the world going - Rishona Chopra
What keeps the world going? Love, friendship, humanity, happiness? I believe its trust that keeps this world going. This trust isn't trusting someone with your secrets or your belongings. It isn't restricted to our trust in a bank to keep our money. It isn't our trust to share something with someone but rather our trust in life. Like how a bird waits for the day of its flight, simply trusting that there will be a tomorrow. Like how we plan our life, our schedules, our meetings because we simply trust that we'll be healthy and happy tomorrow.
It's this blind trust in life that keeps us going. We never think of how we may not give our exam tomorrow because the sun may never rise, the world may end, we may not be alive. Why don't we question this? Because we trust that life will go on the way it always goes. The sun not setting isn't impossible - it's simply our trust in the sun - to always rise.
This trust is something which is so natural and so important that we never realize that its trust that keeps the world going. And it cant be lost because if this trust is lost, we shall spend our lives worrying about god knows what. And worry never did anyone any good. While this trust is so vital, its as vital to know that it is trust in the end that keeps us going because it teaches us one of the most important lessons of life - To live in the present and to focus on NOW, not THEN.
It's no good planning our life ahead because what about what life has planned for us? This doesn't mean you cant be more organised of course but all it means is that we musn't let the future overpower the present. Because the power to be in the present is the greatest of all because it lets us live life and if in this life, we don't live to the fullest, then what are we doing?
Rishona Chopra
Grade VIII
Gyanshree School
Tuesday 14 November 2023
JOL Diaries November 23
"This Children's Day of the year 2023, we are most delighted to bring you the first issue of our monthly newsletter, and we look forward to the middle of every month to get into the middle of your heart and mind with #JoyOfLearning".
Rishona Chopra, School Captain
Sunday 10 September 2023
Finding Your Voice - Tenzin Nyesel
"Never let your inner voice drown in this noisy world because, in the end, that voice knows what's right for you. Always trust your inner voice."
Tenzin Nyesel,
Pestalozzi Children's Village India
Thursday 8 June 2023
Being Human - Anvesha Rana
Being human means not to profit out of someone’s weaknesses,
It means not to have eyes that see gain but that feel the pain,
It means to help without expectations and to love without getting it back,
It means to be selfless and give more, more and more
When someone leaves a seat on the bus for an old lady or man,
I understand what it is to be a human,
When someone goes out of their way to help,
I know what it is to be a human,
When a child selflessly gives away their lunch to a friend who has none,
I know what it is to be a human,
When a teacher empathizes with a kid who has suffered a loss,
I know what it is to be a human.
Being a human is the greatest asset,
We are human for a purpose and reason,
Let us not trample upon the ones who hurt us,
Forget and forgive is to be a human,
To give more and expect less is to be a human,
To offer a hand to others and walk together is to be a human,
To listen to the heart rather than the mind is to be a human,
We all are human by birth, but we must embrace it by nature.
Anvesha Rana
Grade 11
Gyanshree School
Wednesday 17 May 2023
Understanding - Anvesha Rana
Understanding is not just about learning but also about living. When others confess their mistakes, lies or problems to us, we often turn a blind eye towards them and do not listen. Still, we need to be humble enough to understand what they are going through, be kind enough to give them a shoulder and be trustworthy sufficient to accept their reality. Treat others the way you wish to be treated. Each person deserves love and affection just the way we do.
Understanding is not a simple task; it requires the power to trust and tolerate and the necessity of being thoughtful while observing the simplicity at the heart of the matter and eventually giving in honestly to love. If we can understand, then we can trust. If we can understand, then we can be patient; if we can understand, we can tolerate and understand; only we can love.
At My Good School, understanding is experienced at its core. We initially listen to each other and then begin to understand one another. This is followed by a bond of trust, tolerance and humility, and as time passes, we begin to treasure the standard tie of love that connects us all. Understanding is the foundation stone for building upon the structure of love.
In the Mahabharata, an incident occurred during the Gurukul days of the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Guru Dronacharya, the teacher of the princes, had to leave the gurukul for a fortnight due to some urgent work; hence, he had called upon all his pupils and asked them to complete their lessons by the time he returned. All students finished their work and did some extra tasks as well. Guru Dronacharya returned after a fortnight and called his pupils to the classroom; one by one, he individually asked them to come forward and inform him how many lessons they had completed while he was away.
Someone said three, someone else four, others 5 and so on; the teacher beamed at his students as he looked at them with love. At last, he called Yudhishthira, the eldest son of the Pandavas, and Guru Dronacharya was sure that Yudhishthira would have done more lessons than everyone else. However, when asked the question, he answered that he had only done one sentence. The teacher was shocked and yelled at him that in a fortnight, he could only do one sentence; Yudhishthira apologised but repeated that he could only understand that sentence. The other pupils were shocked as they saw their Guru mercilessly scolding Yudhishthira. However, he stayed rooted in his words. At the end of it, when Guru Dronacharya finally asked him what the sentence was, he confidently replied, “Control your anger and Guru ji, it took me 15 days to learn how to control my anger, so I could only complete one sentence.” Guru Dronacharya stood in awe and appreciated Yudhishthira, for he had understood the power of understanding, an ability not yet attained by many of us.
Anvesha Rana
Grade 11
Gyanshree School
Sunday 7 May 2023
The Stuff Toy To The Heart - Reveda Bhatt
Understanding someone, one's problems or just giving them a platform to open up fully is sometimes all one needs to get better. For that, what is needed is a mutual relationship where both people are fully committed to helping each other solve their problems because if one's just a bagpipe, then even if they get what you say, anything you share with them is just not safe.
Understanding is an excellent virtue because that's when someone lends you their ears to make you feel better. It's not like they give you a rebuttal for what you say, but they agree to whatever you say and then help you look for a solution. Now, isn't that what a true friend does!?
Everyone has a right to be understood because it is essential to know how others look at the world from. To be good at understanding, what we need to give up on is contradicting. Otherwise, then it just feels like a debate, way more hectic for the person who needs, in fact, "wants" to be understood.
Like warmth to the cold, comfort to the hurt, clouds to the sky, stuff toy to the sad, does understanding work as an aid to a cut deep into trust.
Then, the aim, which is the main, is that you need to keep all that to yourself and not go on sharing the person's views with others. Only then would you be able to become a good human being, a true one, true to yourself!
Reveda Bhatt
The Aryan School
Tuesday 25 April 2023
Stop It! - Reveda Bhatt
Do you know what the most vulnerable thing in this world is?
The Aryan School
Saturday 7 January 2023
Responsibility - Rishona Chopra
At my earlier school, we did an activity, in fact, not an activity but a daily exercise. Every day, after lunch, we had to clean the class. We got duties of dusting, sweeping and mopping. Whoever finished their duty would get to play outside. This taught us responsibility; my favourite task was to mop the floor. If you try it once, you'll realize it's fun to mop the floor, unlike sweeping. Even cleaning the bathroom is a cool duty, well, only if it's a small one!
Every relationship with friends or family brings a sense of duty and responsibility. Each family member has a duty, a responsibility to fulfil. For example, a child has the duty to help with chores, study and work hard; likewise, other family members must fulfil their jobs. A little compromise from everybody always results in something great or, in this example - A happy family. An important part is responsible for our actions. We all make mistakes and some wrongdoings, and instead of covering them up with thousands of lies, we could make it easy with one truth and take responsibility for our actions.
Giving responsibilities can only be done with a bridge of trust and confidence. If you trust the person and feel confident about yourself, this bridge can be crossed.
Grade VI
Gyanshree School
Saturday 7 May 2022
How sports has helped me to build hope - Arav Agarwal
Playing sports has helped me to build
hope. Whenever we are standing on the ground, we have that ray of hope which inspires
us to believe and never give up. In life and sports, anything can change at any
moment, so hope helps us to keep on going.
I was bowling the last over in one of the practice cricket matches, and the other team needed only 1 run to win in 4 balls.
But still, we kept hope and stretched the match to 1 run to win in 1 ball.
Though we lost, it was a great learning for my team members about the power of hope and me.
As rightly said that hope means hoping even when things seem hopeless. Sports have taught me to keep hope alive in any situation and have faith and trust.
Grade: 6A
Billabong High International School, Thane
Saturday 26 February 2022
Friendship - Khushi Badgeri
Friendship is a state of trust where two friends spend time talking and knowing each other. Friendship is an important relationship in everyone's life. It means understanding, forgiveness, growing together, sharing, and keeping secrets. Mainly it also needs to have lots of patience.
For me, my true friendship is with my books and nature. I love to see the beauty of nature and write its beauty in my book. I love to plant seeds and see their different stages of growth. I can talk to them
while watering or being around them. Plants can listen to you and feel your touch. You have to preserve nature. It's our responsibility in friendship. The more you plant trees and take care of nature there will be greenery everywhere which will help our ecosystem.
Sunday 6 February 2022
Friendship - Anusha Jain
I'm talking about friendship and friends.
Friends at the flowers in the garden of life. Beginning with the seed of trust, nurturing laughter and tears, growing into loyalty and love. True friendship isn't about being inseparable, it's being separated, and nothing changes.
The extraordinary friendship of Krishna Ji and Sudama Ji tells us the true meaning and value of friendship in this world. After numerous years, the entire incident when Sudama met Krishna is very touching and unforgettable. Even today, once we remember those times, we have tears in our eyes thinking of the bond, the love that the two of them had for each other.
"Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest find you and bring you home. And real friends never have to tell you that they are your friends."
I am very fond of reading. Harry Potter is my favourite series. I want to explore my culture and heritage. I love helping others.
Friday 4 February 2022
Leadership - Anusha Jain
I love reading, and Harry Potter is my
favourite series.
Wednesday 2 February 2022
The unprivileged - Rishona Chopra
And create a new bond,
And respond,
Is simply to adjust,
To the silent cries,
And let them rise,
They shall know that they are worth,
They are here on this Earth,
To create a future,
They don’t need a ruler,
They are much more than we think,
But we make them shrink!
Wonder who ‘they’ are in this poem? They are the unprivileged who are shown useless from their looks and way of living, but they are, after all, humans, suitable? They have taken birth on this Earth so they have as much right as we do. We have ignored their silent cries even knowing that they can change the world with a bit of education. We just need to trust them.
Rishona Chopra Grade V Gyanshree School
Thursday 18 November 2021
Trust - Divya Rathore
Wednesday 20 October 2021
Caring - Arjun Rohila
Arjun Rohila of Grade 5 Gyanshree School Noida shares a beautiful story to explain the Value of Appreciation. This story is about trust and betrayal, a fable about animals and how they have extra-sensory perception and live in harmony with nature. #JoyOfLearning
Wednesday 19 May 2021
Respect - Jaydeep Sompura
Give Respect, Get Respect |
Tuesday 16 March 2021
Trust - Krishna Dave
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