PRINCIPAL'S DESK

Step out of your comfort zone!

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After having spent two years with online classes, most students have become comfortable with them as they have the freedom to keep their cameras off. Even if they are asked to turn on the video, the usual response is “poor network”! After schools reopened, students are back to school with masks which is mandatory. But now there is a tendency for many students to hide behind the masks as they are not easily recognized by others.

Have you gotten too comfortable with your mask? Are you trying to hide behind it? Probably, it helps you hide your emotions, suppress your feelings and avoid talking. With Covid-19, our life has changed, and we can’t predict a date to be rid of this pandemic and masks; they have become a part of our dress code. Some people have found a safer place behind masks to hide their feelings and escape from reality. They have become so comfortable with masks that they do not want to show their faces to others.

A comfort zone is not a good place to be in it. It limits us and doesn’t help us grow. Here is a beautiful story.

Long time ago, a king received 2 beautiful baby eagles in form of a present. The king was very pleased with the gift and decided to hire an experienced caretaker for them. He took great care of them and developed such a strong bond with those two that they didn’t need to be caged.

After few months the king decided to pay them a visit. He noticed that the 2 Babies had now developed into strong adolescents. The king wished to see them flying and ordered the caretaker to signal them to fly into the sky. On receiving his signal, both eagles began to fly. One of them flew high into the sky and touched new heights, while other one flew for some seconds and returned to the branch where it was earlier sitting.

King found this little weird and asked the caretaker that why is these two so contrasting. The caretaker told the king that this one had a problem from the beginning and he would never leave the branch.

The king desperately wanted the second bird to fly high as the first one. So he announced this as a challenge in his court and stated that the person who will be successful in making the eagle fly would receive a heavy prize from the king. So, many scholars came and tried to apply the knowledge they had, but no one was successful. The king too lost hope and almost gave up.

But after few days the caretaker informed the king that one man was successful in making the eagle fly high in the sky. He was then brought before the king where the king was eagerly waiting with the promised prize. The king learnt that the man was a simple farmer. He just asked him his method he used which lot of highly qualified people didn’t think about.

He said,” I simply cut the branch, the branch on which he had a habit of sitting. As there was no branch, he had no option but to fly and which he did very well.” 

Friends, we all are meant to fly high in our life. But sometimes we underestimate ourselves and don’t realize our true potential. We are habituated to doing certain things which will always limit us. Just as the eagle didn’t realize that it could actually fly as high as it always liked to remain on the branch. After the farmer had cut it, it had no option but to come out of its comfort zone and start working. Only then he realized its true potential.

Even we need to come out of our comfort zones as great things in life are only achieved out of the comfort zone in which we keep living and hoping for life to get better.

As we begin the new academic session 2022 – 23, let’s get out of our comfort zone to new heights to fly high. The reality is that the universe is always in motion and if we don’t move with the changes, we will be left behind. There is no such thing as “staying where we are” because there is always movement.

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God bless you all abundantly.

Sr. Leelamma

Principal