Dear Jack,

Isn’t teaching transferring knowledge from one person to another? Does it have to happen within the context of a group, in a school, or between an adult and a child? Having a soft voice can be exactly what someone needs from a teacher when they are learning. There’s a good chance that there are also students who find the usual school setting too stressful to cope with. They might benefit greatly from private tutoring from someone who understands them. Just like with everyone of us, there is someone out there who is looking for exactly what we can provide 🙂

My future? Oh, probably quite bleak, but I’m just not sensible enough to worry about it 🙂 I’ll cross that bridge when I get there. I’m just happy I have survived my past and have been able to turn my life around in a way that I no longer see myself as worthless or useless or a burden to others.

This all makes me ponder now that perhaps it wouldn’t be such a huge jump going from feeling unworthy to neutral and happy to truly confident to do the things I want to do. There are people with less skills who do more things just because they have decided that they will. They practice and practice enough and gain the skills needed. Why wouldn’t we be able to do that?