A subtle transition

If you have had the chance to attend one of my task 1 lessons, you will realize how quickly from one data source I can construct into a piece of writing. I can do so with my eyes closed and do so differently yet still efficiently from one writing to the next. It is not a skill that happens overnight. It comes from my background working with number when I was still at school. At some points during my school years I didn't, even for once, allow myself to let go of the first rank in Mathematics. Mathematics was my comfort zone, and it was called "comfort" for a reason: I was exposed to it knowing there are only 2 options: either being right or being wrong. There is no gray area. And so, I was only working my way to be right, and knowing ahead that I would be right was what built my confidence. 

Funny how things have been planned out very differently for me. I was sent down a path teaching Writing and somehow it is all about the different lens and angles looking into things. There is not only a gray area. The gray area is massive and it keeps expanding itself. I have to navigate myself among ideas, not just of mine but also of my students, pointing out what is valid and what is not, and if it is the latter that proves true then following are the hows and the whys: how it is not quite there yet and why the argument is still flawed. This transition of mine has been bittersweet but towards the later years there has been more sweet than bitter as I learned to adapt and convinced myself that their lies beauty in the multitude of possibilities.

So if you allow me to instruct you, bear with me as we sail through the world of ideas. It is being challenged that makes us grow. I hope you don't settle for less and see beauty as you attempt to write something difficult.