The Wordsmith

You ask me if I am doing this because I didn't get any other job

You ask me if I like being sadistic and screwing my own career

You politely tell me that recession has affected a lot of people and all of them did find other jobs after a while, and you look pointedly at me

You ask me what my salary was four years back, what my salary was two years back and what my salary is now. I answer politely.

You wonder rather loudly if my chidlren's futures aren't doomed anyway

You ask me HOW i can see any kind of change happening in two years when no significant change has happened in 64 years.

You ask me how me, a compulsive pessismist, can be so optimistic about the lives of random children who would have ended up being criminals anyway

You say with a smirk, "well they would have been terrorists without you, now they will be small time criminals. big difference"

You tell me that my influence can never be so great that it will make the 7 hours that i spend with the children more important than the 17 hours they spend at home with abusive parents in broken homes, living in penury, listening to bad language and looking at people doing terrible things

Me?

I smile and say Sorry and Thank you.

Sorry for you that you can't see what I see

Sorry that you are positive about things like getting a raise, getting an auto, getting a pretty spouse but not positive about what I am extremely positive about

Sorry that you think I am a loser.

and Thank you.

A million times

Because this conversation just makes my resolve stronger

Makes me feel more positive

Makes me want to work so much harder to give my all to these children

Makes me want to work my posterior off, send my kids to college, come back to you in another 6 years and say "in your face bugger"

Makes me want to work harder, just so I can prove you wrong. (I know. I am cheap. And even if I fail I will know that I have tried)

Which wise man first discovered reverse psychology?

R.E.S.P.E.C.T Sir

:)