Those magical words
"Nanak berhi sachh ki tariyae gur veechaar" O Nanak, the boat of truth of this truthful life, can go across the ocean by the wisdom of the Guru. Last year, in January I had the worst day in school. I would like to share that with you and I hope that this story would motivate you in some way to not let the noise of others’ opinion drown out your own inner voice. It was the day when the results for our final assessment were to be declared. It appeared to be that I was the lowest scorer of the class. This was a huge shock for me and I was utterly mad and angry with myself. Adding insult to the injury, my friends started to make fun of me. I stood in the middle of the class embarrassed, desperately waiting for the school day to end. I took my bag and ran out of the class, down to the school gate to go home. I had made my mind to never come back to this building again. I reached home crying and told my mother about all that had happened. She listened to me patiently and told me to...