The Point
Amy worked as a Mathematics teacher in the local school for over thirty years. Her sixtieth birthday also marked her last day at school, as a teacher. That day she remembered her last day at school as a student, how happy she was back then! How the feelings of leaving school had changed in all those years. Time had transformed her from the immature pupil to a matured teacher, who felt a mixture of emotions. A contentment of having lived through years of imparting education, of being a useful member of society, a subtle sadness of having to depart from all who were so dear and part of her daily life all these years and a small measure of some apprehensive joy for the prospective freedom from daily duties. Though she was relieved at the prospect of being free from the daily routine of teaching, she was concerned about maintaining a balanced life without the rigid framework of a disciplined routine. “Routine as though provides a skeletal framework on which we hang the clothes of momen