This is Who I Am

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If you’ve never watched, I highly recommend it! It’s certainly a unique show and you need to have the right perspective in order to enjoy it, but it is every bit as deep and beautiful as it is quirky and funny.

This is one of many quotes from the show that speak to me. Picking only one quote would be just about impossible! But this one came across my dashboard today and I had to share it with you.

I don’t know what’s coming next. None of us do. We never will. We need to live life and try new things and get scared and love and lose people and win challenges and slowly, step by step, we’ll find out who we are meant to be and what we are meant for in life.

Not every little thing we do will matter to many people, but it will matter to someone. Even if that someone is just me, I need to remember that sometimes I am enough. Sometimes the little things that only make a difference in my life will combine and collide and help me make a bigger difference later.

Theoretically, I learned ALL about being a teacher in my 4 years of undergraduate classes dedicated towards being an elementary school teacher. 

But if there’s anything I’ve realized this year as I attempted (and hopefully succeeded!) to teach 23 second-grade students, it’s that I’m still learning to be a teacher. I teach and teach and teach, but my students and my experiences in that classroom teach ME what it means to be a teacher and how to do it correctly! There were plenty of times this past year when I thought “oh, well, now I know how to do it NEXT year!” 

This globe shows Earth during the day, and changes to constellations and lights up when it gets dark.

Lupin probably guessed that Neville’s biggest fear would be similar to what he guessed Harry’s would be- Lord Voldemort, or in Neville’s case the death eater who tortured his parents - and was planning on stepping in before Neville faced the boggart so a bunch of 13 year olds wouldn’t see Bellatrix Lestrange cackling and spitting curses in their classroom. 

But then Severus Snape insults Neville in front of his class, tries to shame a 13 year old boy in front of a new teacher, and Lupin is so angry. Because he had hoped that after 13 years, now they were adults, maybe Snape had gotten over himself a little and realized that he was a teacher and responsible for these kids, but apparently not. Apparently Snape was still the same petty, angry ,bitter child that he’d been in school, except now he’s bullying children half his age instead of yelling slurs at classmates. 

And so Lupin sees the terror in Neville’s face and realizes that, oh my god he fears his potions teacher more than the people responsible for his parents. And Lupin is so indignant and outraged that he KNOWS he has to give this kid some leverage, some way to stand up to his tormentor, and gives that to him. Lupin stands up and tells Neville EXACTLY how to conquer his fear and, moreover, how to do it in front of all his classmates who laughed at him for being scared.

Remus Lupin starting off the school year by letting his students confront their biggest fears, so nothing else they face that year will be as scary. If you can beat your biggest fear, how bad can a test be? Or a big quidditch match? Or being rejected by the girl you ask out? 

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