LET'S ASSUME

Once upon a time when dinosaurs lived, I used to work for a bank...the trainer had taught me the basic tenets that made a banker what she is...fraud-proof. "Never assume", he had solemnly instructed his over-eager trainee. "Never assume that a customer would pay his bank back. Never take anything at its face value. Keep your information to urself and never assume people are not going to misuse it…It is illogical to assume because...(he had paused dramatically)... WHEN U ASSUME U MAKE AN ASS OUT OF U AND ME." I most certainly refused to be a quadruped ...instead I honed my "bipedal" skills and evolved as Darwin's darling...a smart banker with an impressive bank statement and a zero trust-bank balance.

And then i committed the BLUNDER...I switched over my role, became a teacher...AND THE FUN BEGAN...

Trained not to take things at their face-value…all I could see were faces…faces, keen and naughty…faces eager and distracted, faces mischievous and honest. Faces peering out of the last benches…faces asking a million questions…faces changing every moment with myriad expressions.

Trained to calculate profit and loss and account for every penny, I messed up my balance sheet big time. Credits earned showed much more than debits entered…investments made at the classrooms with students started yielding rewards unthinkable!!!

Trained not to share information, I was doing just that!!! Sharing facts, ideas and the teeny bit of information that I possessed in my li'l kitty.

Trained not to assume…I was assuming that tomorrow would be better than today,that the careful and the cautious often have much at stake, that relationships are the ultimate investments that are more rewarding than gold bonds.

Therefore, although my bank statement is rather depressing now (and will continue that way till Teachers' Judgement Day) I am awfully relieved that my trust-bank balance has been replenished.

Above all, I am glad I have understood that assumptions are NEVER illogical. After all, Mathematics, the most logical of all the subjects begins with a "LET'S ASSUME".