I’ve always enjoyed learning. Like any kid growing up in any educational system, I had my fair share of hating a particular subject or rebelling against teachers, but in general, I was blessed with a pretty easy school life. I liked school. I loved some of my teachers. I had some great peers. I wasn’t the fastest learner, but I’d manage to do well enough. I was that teenager who secretly enjoyed homework and exams. I played sports. I was never the best, but I’d practice and make the team. I’d learn to play the game. Learning was a positive experience, a fun and rewarding one too.

Studying abroad, then corporate life, the best memories are mostly associated with moments of learning, realization and the sense of growth. Those embarrassing turned funny stories of younger than today version of me, confused, making mistakes, struggling, thinking and running so hard. The learning curve in business was so exciting, fast, addictive, shiny, rewarding, unconsciously numbing, and consuming. Then it became harder and harder to find that excitement of learning through work. Well, it’s probably fair to say that’s not the corporate world’s business. But work was most of my week, month and year.

Around that time I met yoga, then soon after, surfing. Both journeys started by chance, and wasn’t meant to be of such significance. But I was so lucky that my very first teachers in both these journeys became my mentors in life. And as these two worlds continue to expand and deepen, the universe has blessed me with phenomenal teachers along the way.

I always enjoyed learning and being a student, so I thought. But then I just realized, it was actually that, I’ve been blessed with amazing teachers. Teachers in different color, size, character, countries, and oceans, but all share a common thread of humility, professionalism, passion, trust, love and belief that what they’ve learned and now teach, betters life and progresses the world to be a better place, one student at a time. Thanks to such amazing humans, my life, and many other lives will never be the same.