Monday, October 12, 2009

What do you wake up too?

Here's an interesting story that really inspired me this morning.

This story first ran on the BBC News Website.

"Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because their families are too poor to afford to send them to school. In India, one schoolboy is trying change that.

At 16 years old, Babar Ali must be the youngest headmaster in the world. He's a teenager who is in charge of teaching hundreds of students in his family's backyard, where he runs classes for poor children from his village.

The story of this young man from Murshidabad in West Bengal is a remarkable tale of the desire to learn amid the direst poverty. "


Waking up in the morning, mourning and groaning about even having to get up at all is quite the norm for millions of us.

I know that my life has changed since getting on the morning show cause I have to make it to the office by 5:30am. Now,I wonder if I have what it takes to even match the intestinal fortitude of this young man. He not only makes use of what he has to help over 800 children in his community and pass on the much needed knowledge but also manages to do his household chores.

In a modern world where teenagers are taught to pursue the most glamorous items and seek to amass never-ending material products, this boy is affecting change and really making a difference. I could take a lesson... just when I think I am doing loads. Think again, what is it all for and all about? The daily panic and dashing about? It's time to rethink what you wake up for today.

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