Respect - Rishona Chopra

Respect is when you care for someone and have a high opinion about them.  

Many say we must have respect for elders, but we should also respect younger ones. Everyone is equal, so everyone should get respect.

Being respectful is essential as when we speak with anger and disappointment, the opponent feels terrible and wouldn’t care to listen to you, and you would feel bad. On the other hand, if we talk with respect, people would easily understand us and feel good.

Apart from respecting others, we must respect ourselves too, which is having self-esteem. 

Self-esteem is to love ourselves. When we do something wrong, we shouldn’t be hard on ourselves but respect ourselves like a young child who made a small mistake. Having too much self-esteem is not good, and neither is having no self-esteem. 

We should respect others and ourselves too.

Rishona Chopra
Grade V
Gyanshree School

Freedom - Linisha Agarwal

Freedom and privilege both are the most debatable terms today.

Freedom is the ability to make choices and to carry them out successfully.

Freedom to me is to be ready to make decisions and choices
independently, keeping consequences in mind, to be prepared to breathe willingly. Freedom is something that everyone wants and deserves as a gift.

Freedom is the most significant thing in my life to live confidently and respectfully. Keeping this in mind, I can say that you, me, and we all have Freedom but still crib for petty things; instead, we should think about those unfortunate who don t even experience essential Freedom. Some might consider freedom a license to do whatever they wish to do with no restrictions, forgetting that their duties complement this term.

Freedom is that choice to measure your life in terms of doing what you & like to, to live where you'd like to, and most importantly, to seek out what your heart aspires. This suggests that Freedom can apply to different aspects of life.

What does Freedom mean for girls? In fact, Freedom for a girl is not about being able to do the things like a boy, but freedom lets her choose and decide what she wants. Moreover, Freedom is often known as a state of mind where you have the right and liberty of doing what you can dream of. Also, you can feel Freedom from within. It is the power to act according to our own will. And to enjoy Freedom, you should free yourself from negative thoughts and be optimistic.

To conclude, I would like to add that we should not ignore the fact -
With Freedom comes Responsibilities.

Linisha Agarwal
Grade 7
The Doon Girls School

Compassion - Savyata Rijal

Compassion-the nature of humanity, it's the essence. It is to feel someone else's pain as one's own and act in a way to reduce that pain.

There is nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness-

John Connolly.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength -

Dalai Lama

Now that we think about the word 'compassion', it probably makes us feel like we can do something like that. It makes us feel like we should stand up for the people and portray our compassion in our own small way.

I would share this example- how the founder of early 'Big Hit Entertainment' or today's 'Hybe Entertainment' stepped in and helped a now 'BTS' member 'Suga' debut during his training period! You probably wouldn't imagine, but even Min yoongi was not born into a wealthy family, he had difficulty; he struggled during that time because he had to decide between saving money for food or to use for the bus, he thought about losing his dream of debuting because of it. But then Mr Band Si Hyuk stepped in and gave him time to let up and pay for his tuition. He helped him debut and let us know the rapper 'suga'.

Not just Mr Bang Si Hyuk but also inspiring people like Mother Teresa have also been very compassionate. They inspire us and help us become a better person. Our parents also help us become better people, and they should never stop us from helping the ones in need. Parental support and guidance will help us become more sensitive and compassionate beings.

Savyata Rijal
Grade 8
The Doon Girls School

Joy Of Learning - Rishona Chopra

 

The Joy of Learning Diaries is a website where students can post their reflections on My Good School’s reading program every Sunday. They can literally post anything they want. We publish the Joy Of Learning Diaries, and our blogs go in an extensive diary where many students can post.

We connect the Joy Of Reading with the joy of writing by -

• What we read in the reading session we reflect upon by writing.
• What we have written can be converted into a podcast (audio file) - Joy of Speaking.

That is how My Good School connects the three joys.

In school, we learn academics, but at My Good School, we help improve and enhance the primary interests. We experience the joy of writing, reading and speaking. Apart from that, we have a few partner programs too. Like, Slooh  (Space Program) and Sportify (Sports Program).

Most important of all, students can become interns! 

While being an intern sounds like a lot of hard work, it is straightforward as long as you like doing it. I am an intern, and I simply love it! I get blogs from other students and post them. I also make a few designs for My Good School, which is marvellous. Interns help grow the school too. 

We learn with joy!!

Rishona Chopra

Grade V

Gyanshree School

Compassion - Anoushka Vinod

Is Your Child Ready to Face the World? by Doctor Anupam Sibal, my reflection on compassion.

No act of compassion is ever small. By being compassionate, you show the love and care in your heart. In our session, we learnt the true meaning of compassion. It is astounding how just a few small acts give you great rewards.

To be compassionate means understanding those who are in misfortunate or in need. We learnt about two remarkable ladies. They were Mother Teresa and Princess Diana. Even though they were well known, they didn't let pride overcome their humbleness.

Individuals believe that people with a higher post should be respected and be perfect in every way, but Princess Diana broke this belief and proved to everyone that no one is supreme. We all have our faults, and we can only fix them by being compassionate and humble. That is how she met Mother Teresa. Together, they both made a change in the world. I have learnt that small acts, like helping someone in need, show compassion. To finish off, I would like to say that everyone is equal. The only way to get appreciated and loved is by showing compassion.

Anoushka Vinod

Grade VI

Gyanshree School

Compassion - Avni Kochhar

 

Hi, My name is Avni Kochhar, and I have experienced Compassion many times. So let me share my understandings of what is Compassion.

Compassion is so valuable That nobody will ever forget the Compassion shown by you. 

It is sporadic to find Compassion these days, So if we all show a step forward with Compassion, it makes a big difference. To me, Compassion is to Care, To share. It means caring for someone, and you share your Compassion with that person too. So even by one person, many people might learn to show Compassion.

I have learned so much about being a good human being.

Avni Kochhar 
IV-E
Gyanshree school

Compassion - Arav Agarwal

Is Your Child Ready to Face the World?

After reading the chapter compassion in the book called Is Your Child Ready to Face the World? by Doctor Anupam Sibal, my reflection on compassion.

Compassion means understanding others' suffering and helping them just like Princess Diana and Mother Teresa did.

I learned the word compassion in the lockdown when I was reading a book called Planting Seeds by Thich Nhat Hanh. There is a chapter in the book called understanding and compassion. The chapter starts with a promise "I vow to develop compassion to protect the lives of people, animals, plants and minerals. The chapter says people like doing different things; suppose you want to read a book and your friend wants to play tennis, you can just read the book later and go out to play tennis with your friend. This small act of understanding and compassion will give your friend joy and make him happy, and you will become satisfied.

After reading that chapter, I realized that everyone was practising compassion and helping each other in the lockdown. We used to practice compassion by helping in household and office work and supporting each other as everything was closed. I also showed compassion and helped my parents in work by cleaning the house and helping in cooking. My parents understood that I couldn't meet my friends, so they played games like cricket, badminton and chess, which I play with my friends. Also, the vendors were very understanding and compassionate, and they used to deliver things quickly and also arranged if they didn't have that thing. Teachers practised compassion by rapidly adapting to online learning and making it fun for us, and being patient in teaching us.

We don't need to do something big to show compassion. Small acts of kindness will show compassion and make a big difference. Everyone can be compassionate; we don't need a superpower to be compassionate. If we do a small act of compassion, we can make a big difference in the person's life which we don't realize. As rightly said by the fourteenth Dalai Lama, "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Name: Arav Agarwal

Grade: 5C

Billabong High International School, Thane