Become a tutor

Years from now, looking back, I think I would list being a tutor as one of the most fulfilling things that I have ever done.  There is a joy and a sense of accomplishment in being able to share knowledge with someone.  It stirs something deep within you, a heighten sense of awareness and creativity, when you  are called to explain a concept, to teach, to profess.  It is a splendid challenge to navigate how someone approach learning, and to subsequently tailor one's way of professing accordingly so as to help them grasp what was once an elusive notion. It is a great adventure of exploration together- both liberating and rewarding.

I hope that each of you will consider experiencing that which I have experienced and become a tutor yourself.   I fell in love with audiology for the very reason that it is a profession of nurturers and educators.  It is within our nature to listen to our patients, and help them understand more about hearing, listening, effective communicating.  What better way, therefore, to fine hone our skills than by helping our "young".  Sign up to be a tutor today!

Thank you.

Some more thoughts on relationships

To be confused about a relationship is natural... it forms the basis of mutual exploration, the need to communicate... Part of being in a deep, open and meaningful relationship is both parties being able to feel comfortable and encouraged  to mutually prod, expose and explain themselves constantly. Ultimately, you want to be wholesomely vulnerable to that one person, and he/she in kind to you... in the process, you become fully aware of who you are. But that is the theoretical aspect of it... the way to getting there is fraught with a myriad of problems. Notice how I said confusion forms the basis of mutual exploration... but that requires both parties... if either party shuts off, then confusion forms the basis of doubt and worries because they never got to be aired, addressed and discarded. 

There are concrete battles to fight in every relationship... but often times convention has us looking towards the cosmetic ones. We are jaded by culture to believe there is a way relationship should be. There maybe an ideal, but the reality is often far from it... or at least it starts off ways off from where it is supposed to end up looking like. 

Society, pop cultures etc has given us a lot of examples of what a relationship should "look like"...it is crucial that we do not buy into all that fluffy romance crap. If we romanticize the situation without a firm foundation, then our struggles become about epic philosophical and emotional considerations worthy of Shakespeare or novelists, but lose the focus of real life and in particular--our life 

Strong permanent relationships are built on reality, not on romanticized versions of what a relationship should be. Look at what the relationship is separate from the "should be" or imagined struggles. I believe the struggle has taken on its own strength and that is what is driving the relationship rather than the relationship itself being the center.