This Is Our Future

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This is my submission for The Template Challenge. The topic was Do what brings you joy. This template sums up what I feel about my job. I work in a nursery fulltime, with children aged 3-5 years. I love being with children, and seeing them develop. I love knowing that I am a part of a child's progress, and that I can help them start out as loving, kind, amazing individuals.

As for the template, when I saw this image, I loved the angle of the shot, I loved the look of concentration on this child's face as she was in the process of creating her masterpiece. I loved the way the teacher was so engrossed in what the child was painting, and the child's apparent obliviousness of the teacher's attentions.

I made everything but the child and her masterpiece in the image greyscale as I felt it emphasised the child and her painting. I put the words "This Is Our Future" on the image because, basically, our children are the future. The people they grow up to be are the people who are going to run our country and work for our country in the future. With this template, I am celebrating the fact that every day I step inside that nursery, I am changing the lives of all the children I work with, even in the smallest way. A word of praise goes a long way sometimes. A simple action can be remembered for years to come. Do you have a favourite teacher when you were at school? What do you remember about all your teachers? Do you remember the good or the bad? Here's wishing, that in years to come, the children I worked with remember me the way I hope to be remembered.

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