Paola Perez

Evidence: Wisdom comes with experience

This story took place in my old high school. We had been in math class all
morning, my classmates and I were already tired. Our teacher an old man who was
probably 71 years old, very intelligent and full of life and stories to tell, although a
little serious and without patience.
I like mathematics, I understand them but my teacher did not explain the topics well
and he had been stressed that day because we still did not understand some
algebra exercises he began to scold us but after several minutes full of shouts from
him and my classmates He apologized and told us:
"Bear with me children, I am an old man and I do not understand your generation,
as I am explaining to you was how they taught me in my years of university,
anyway, I apologize for having exalted me". And after that some tears came out, I
will never forget what I felt when I saw the image of the old men.
The whole class looked at him and we told him that it was okay to feel that way,
that we accepted his apology, but that he would forgive us as well. days later he
stopped going to classes, a new teacher arrived, we got a letter from our teacher
and the note that he had died of cancer; The letter said to pursue our dreams, that
poverty is not an obstacle if we have extremely bright brains, he told us to accept
the blessings that life had, to do charitable works such as visiting a nursing home
or going to a children's hospital. He said that difficulties are ways that life teaches
us to get up. I still remember that letter and the sadness that a great man had left
us, I am grateful to have met him.