Did you ever have that written/unwritten letter/s you never got the chance to send to someone in your life? It could be a brief message or a saga you wish to deliver...
Here's mine (hope she gets to read this)
To Ms. Concepcion Taboada
Dear Ma'am;
Sorry I haven't got the chance to visit you and my old grade school for such a long time now. I graduated year 1996, actually came back a couple of years after to witness a school activity. My first thought upon glimpsing again the school was actually "Wow, this building is really small, but I used to look up to it as a massive structure" Well, I must've grown up...a bit..haha
Thank you Ma'am for molding what I am now as a person with the values you have instilled upon us. No teacher has ever made an impact on me such as you had. No, I didn't make it as a cum laude in college, or ranked as CEO in a huge company nor did I run for public office. I'm just an ordinary employee making ends meet. I would just like to extend my gratitude to all my teachers in grade school from 1st to 5th, to Mother principal and most especially you..
Thank you Ma'am for---
knowing each of our names, our siblings' and cousins' and neighbors' who went to the same school
feeling our forehead when we complain of illness (faked or not..haha)
telling us that we may be poor but we are neat
urging us to fix the hems of our skirts and to polish our dusty shoes
requiring us to stand up and share our opinions to the whole class
forcing us to study for the surprise quizzes you "hinted" on us
sharing the important moments of your life
advising us on what high school would be best for us
choosing to stay with us when you could've opted for some other career that can pay you more
reminding us the importance of helping others and loving our family
Most of all thank you Ma'am for taking the extra steps by being more than just a teacher; by being a friend, a confidante, a stern disciplinarian and a mother to us all. May you come across the lives of hundreds more students and inspire them to be better people, to strive harder and to believe in dreams...
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. ~K. Patricia Cross
-your ordinary student-
That Unsent Letter
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