I Wish My Teacher Knew

One day after school, I was waiting for the pick up in the front yard of the school, it was already evening and the sky was very dark but strangely it didn't rain that day. I waited for a long time, the school was getting quiet, until then my teacher came and sat beside me, accompanying me to be picked up.

We talk about any topic, once in a while, he adjusts his dropping glasses. Come to a topic that makes me interested and learn a new thing.

"Sir, yesterday I saw the boy in the next class door being bullied because his friends said he physically is weak."

"You know? nowadays a lot of people see someone who is strong through his physique. Even though strong is a word that means broad."

I listened carefully, while my teacher cleared his throat and started to talk at length, the 39 old man smoothed his slightly messy hair.

"We men are always asked to be strong, in physically. But why only men? there are a lot of strong women out there too. I'm telling you this so you know that we live in a world that always requires everyone to do this and that, especially about the values that someone has."

I agree that strenght is not only about physical, and not only for one gender, strong can be for anyone, be it women, men, or others.

"Girl, let me tell you if strong it can also be in logic, mentally, and feelings. There are people who are not strong physically but they are strong mentally."

And for the first time I realized, yes it is true. Take a look around, among those people they have strong definitions of different things. Some have big muscles, they are strong physically and boxing but may be weak in logic. Someone who looks really smart maybe they excel at logic, but they can be weak when it comes to feelings.

Someone who is strong in feelings may even think they are weak mentally.

"How about you Sir? what you are strong in?."

He chuckled, then my teacher handed me a bottle of cold drink that he had been holding, I accepted it.

"According to you?."

"In logic?."

My teacher laughed loudly hearing that, he looks at me with an amused look.

"How can you think so?."

I shrugged and answered because obviously, he's a math teacher.

"Yes I'm a math teacher but I'm not strong in logic. I'm strong physically but weak in logic and feelings."

I looked at him in disbelief and he just smiled slightly.

" I know you won't believe it."

He waved his hand in the air, the two of us were silent again and busy drinking bottled drinks, although my math teacher is known as a killer teacher because he is fierce when teaching, he is most liked by all students because of his friendly and friendly attitude which of course he shows outside the classroom.

He also likes to talk about many things with his student whether about school, the future, or dreams. He is also like a friend you can share ideas with.

"If I Sir?."

"Only you know the answer where are you strong."

At the time I didn't know where I was strong. So the question is just a question without an answer, yes because I don't understand myself.

If this world is only filled with physically strong people then this world is just a battle arena. Likewise if it is filled with people who are strong in logic, feelings, or mentally, that's why we were created with a different definition of strong.

He said that made me open my eyes to the world from a different perspective. If may say this he is the best teacher in the world, apart from making his students understand the material he also teaches lessons that we don't learn in school.

Even now I am very grateful to him for telling me so many things over the past three years. I never see him again but I hope he's fine, even I heard from a friend of mine that he became a lecturer at a foreign university, if possible I really want to see him again.

He is my idol besides being my teacher.