I went out for dinner with a few friends just now. We were having discussions about our jobs as teachers and one friend asked why do we keep doing what we do with so many unappreciative and ungrateful students. Students who take it for granted that it is our job to stay back at night to help them, to reteach(not revise mind you) last minute everything you have done over the past year, days before the exam, to give them another copy of the homework assignment when they are careless and lose it and the list goes on. Another friend says jokingly that its because we get paid to do so. So just to get paid we need to go through this? Thats when I decided then and there, I cannot be too emotionally attached to this job. If I am going to put in the effort, they have to show and prove to me they deserve it. They may have pressing problems at home or in their love life and they need to choose. Do they want to be victims or overcome these situations? So from now on, I will treat it just as a job, not a passion. Its too hurtful otherwise. Pointless.