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Friday, July 16, 2010 Was doing some soul searching and i recalled a particular segment of my life when i may have felt the same as you. Back than in the army, there was a PTI(physical training instructor), a regular, a well weathered one. He's old, however he was never incomparable to all the other youngsters in my camp. He is a great instructor who expects his trainees to be able to do all sort of things that he can. Cos to him, what he can, you can do. He's experiences in the physical side of life is packed with tonnes of different activities. He ran , swam, cycled, climbed, jumped.... you name it, he'd probably done it before. I remember going for his trainings, feeling pressured all the time. He is just that kind of person who will go, "What? you cant complete such a simple feat?" Even the other regulars from my camp felt that he lacks the mechanism to empathize his subordinates and trainees. "It is really important that you put yourself in their shoes and think of things from their prospective." said my 2ic. "You have been doing something things like that for such a long time, how can you expect others to be like you in an instant?" As an instructor myself back than, I used to tell my trainees that what i can, you can to. Did i bring out that attitude out as well? Have i unknowingly became someone like the old instructor I've mentioned? The thing is, I'm not an instructor anymore, I don't want to became someone like an ex-army officer, who still bears the "i'm still an officer" kind of attitude and goes treats everyone the same way he has done in his army days. I must stop all this. Before all's too late. There are things which i cannot lose. They are just too important. i'm so sure of what i feel inside 11:12 AM |