The Dark Side Calls Out To Me: A Teacher's Struggle

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I received an invitation by the great @lordvader to join the dark side. I was to be named Darth GuyVaderMetOnSteemit. It is a mouthful but it has a ring to it and it is almost as long as my full name, so, why not? I was lost though. Embracing the dark side... What could that be? Killing someone dear to me? Not really an option, I hear that's at a more advanced level. Besides, I adore my wife and a children, so let's start with something small.

My Journey to Sith-Hood

Upon my research into the old Sith scriptures (wookiepedia), I found out that I could achieve Sith-hood by being vilified by others and to hurt the people I love. So I thought, the other group of people that I would consider as people I love are my students. So perhaps causing them pain would make me a Sith Lord. So off I went to class. I had a plan, you see, I have a group of students who are frequently late to class. My newly discovered Sith knowledge has opened me up to new possibilities.

It is time for me strike back. When I entered my class, half my class was late, once again. I stood up and told my class and told them that it is not fair for them to be early while many are late so often. I said, it is time that we teach them a lesson. I told the ones who are early to act solemn and anxious. On the board I wrote that the assignment that is due in 2 weeks has been pushed forward to today. I told the class to act busy and stressed.

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True enough, as those who were late started to trickle in, they started to panic and were trying to complete an assignment that required two weeks to finish quickly. After laboring for half an hour, I revealed that it was all a ruse and told them the lesson behind it. It felt good, I felt evil, I have finally taught these students a lesson. Oh wait, I think that was done for a good cause. I think I was doing good instead of evil... Sigh... Perhaps, I should try again.

My Second Evil Attempt

I was assigned a group of students for a swimming lesson. I was asked to demonstrate how to teach young children how to swim and one of my students has hydrophobia. As I kept patiently encouraging the student to place his head in the water to exhale. No luck, I was being observed, the parents were observing me and so were all my other students. A voice in my head told me that this was weakness. It told me to attempt to submerge the child's head into the water forcefully.

I told the child what I was going to do and he clung onto me and cried, yelling for me not to let him go. My heart melted. I shoved the inner darkness in me to the furthest reaches of my mind and hugged the child. I told him that we would try again and I continued patiently trying to encourage the child to swim.

After I have finished the lesson, I have realized that I have once again failed my master.

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The Journey Continues

I shall continue with my journey to become Darth GuyVaderMetOnSteemit. As Darth Bane once said, conflict sharpens one's skills and makes the Sith stronger. I know through this conflict that I have within myself, I will continue to better myself. I know that I will learn and I will learn to become a better teacher, I mean... Sith.

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I hope you've enjoyed the post. It is difficult being a teacher and like every human, we do get the occasional dark thoughts. However, what normally snaps me back to reality is my duty to my students to inspire and help them. There are times where I do troll them or play some pranks on them. As they are adults, they play pranks on me too. April fool is an exceptionally challenging time. I have to be wary of the pranks that do come.

All in all, I love them, but who knows, even great Jedis fall to the dark side too, remember Anakin?

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