[Jagriti55] Thank You EVERYONE in 55th batch

As we grow older, we seem to thank more people. The list of whom we're in-gratitude seems to increase every year. But think of it, when we came into this world - as a baby - we were totally dependent. But we had no need to say thank you to anybody because we were considered a gift. The gratitude was mutual. It would not be preposterous to say that the parent-child or teacher-learner relationship is one of gratitude.

And Love thrives in an environment soaked in gratitude.
And learning grows in a soil enriched with gratitude.
And life becomes carefree with an attitude of gratitude.

Our daughter wanted to have an Apple pie and we landed up in a bakery. In the showcase we saw two apple-pies left - one conspicuously bigger than than the other.When the shopkeeper started to give her the bigger one, she interrupted, "Gimme the smaller one, let the next customer have the bigger one"

So there is gratitude that we feel when we get something.
But there is a much deeper kind of gratitude that we feel when we give something.

A parent we were talking to exclaimed, "You do not teach maths!"
We shook my head and replied, "Neither we teach music. But every child sings, though not necessarily perfectly. And when we need perfection, we listen to the CD. It's the same with maths - we all calculate, though not necessarily perfectly. And when we need perfection, we prefer to use the calculator.

My beliefs have drawn a circle around me.
But, Now i simply live outside the circle.
 
At Aarohi campus we have two dogs and many cats and hundreds of birds and and maybe millions of small ants. I am not counting everything else you can find in a five acre rural campus, in a co-existing and co-creating community.We also find google here. When people ask me how many facilitators we have, we say, since they are over a million, it will take me a lifetime to introduce them all.

We do not have dreams. We're too busy living my life.
A life of gratitude, of giving, of getting, of openness, of learning, of joy.

People ask us, how will the child learn this, how will the child get that, how will the child reach there?
First i frown, then growl, and then I smile, having seen it so many times.
Will ?
Will !
The child will, IF, we let the child discover the gifts inside him or her.
The proverbial pot of gold does not lie at the end of the rainbow.
It is when we open our pot of gold, that rainbows start shining out.

If we look into ourselves - we are not we. We are actually the sum total of all the children we learned with, all the facilitators we worked with and all the parents and other adults whom we interacted with. There is a little bit of each one of YOU in us. In that sense we can never say bye to any of you.
A tiger is the sum total of all the deers he has ever eaten. 

We simply continue, soaked completely in gratitude.

Aditi & Ratnesh

Aarohi is an Open Learning Community for learners of all ages: Open to all kinds of interests, abilities, styles and content areas. Learning by doing what one wants, how one wants, and self reflection. Community to co-live, co-learn and co-support each other. Aarohi's Campus is in a village near Hosur in Tamil Nadu (55km fm Bangalore). More about Aarohi: https://aarohilife.org