The pursuit of happiness and the roughness of reality

I'm back to my roots, I'm again in love with teaching and I feel I'm moving forward again, yet there is a feeling of emptiness after all. This comes from reality check... which of course is what grounds us all and makes us get back into the track of what we are supposed to do. I've been thinking how Philosophy can be practical for students who are underprivileged in many ways. Nonetheless today during my class I noticed something, their eagerness to understand life, to understand themselves, to understand it all can be the trigger to get them involved and make them learn not about Philosophy but to Philosophize, which is the real purpose since the origin of the primitive philosophical thought.

So... the emptiness came from feeling I can't reach out all these eager minds in my classroom and show them the beauty of Philosophy, not because it's an impossibility but because they have other concerns about life and most of all, concerns about the immediate future. Let's face it, most of my students see the future as a dark veil that covers all, because they know better than many that there is no certainty about the future and it is unpredictable.

I have set my goals real high, I want to teach them how to reach far, to dream again, to have confidence in themselves and in the future. That's not regular Philosophy, that's my Philosophy!