past doesn't equal present

Was on the bus on the way to school today when I saw one of my primary school teacher with her two kids boarding the bus. To tell the truth, I actually used to hate her because she scolded our class the moment she stepped into our class for the first time as a relief teacher for something that I have already forgotten. But yeah I just disliked her from that moment on, by the way when I say I am someone who remembers everything done to me good or bad, I really do, especially if it is bad and I mean it in the way, I will still remember it and continue to hate you for it like 10 or 20 years later, yes that's bitchy I know,but really who doesn't, its just that people wants to be nice and say they forgot, who actually does anyway, but that's besides the point.

So there I was hiding in my own corner a few seats behind her and as I looked on at how she and her kids were communicating and the way she was mothering her kids, I started to think, maybe we did really deserve the scolding at that point in time, something I probably wouldn't admit to years back. But anyway, I was probably too biased in my hatred for her and everything, come to think of it I didn't even really know her, she was only our relief teacher for that one lesson and I started hating her from then on. Like well, by the looks of it she was a good mother and everything and probably to other students he was a good teacher. Well that's not the main point, the point is that I started realizing how childish and subjective I was being then taking into consideration that I was like 11 then. Its really just what dumb kids like me used to do...

They say with age comes wisdom, about the wisdom part I guess I still haven't come to the point to have acquired it with the coming with age. But one thing's for sure, with age, comes the ability to look beyond your once childishness, nativity, biases, subjectivity and shortsightedness and look at things from a totally different point of view as compared to the way you did before.Perhaps if we try to think about the way we used to behave before, they probably were all dumb and stupid, but then again I regret not that period of stupidity and dumbness and everything, for without then, I might not have the perspective that I now possess. Say it might just be a process that everyone will have to grow through in the process of maturing our thinking? =)