Characters At School

I've been thinking of a few people in my school, who have chosen different ways to continue their lives and gain an income.

The first person is my Religious Education teacher, also know as the Islamic Studies teacher. This man first graduated from university as an engineer.

Then, he went back to university a few years later, and went and chose to take Islamic Studies, and then later carried on to take a job in our school as a teacher.

Why did he make this move, you ask? In his opinion, he saw that teachers that taught religion in other schools where the least priority of the school, and the teachers themselves are university dropouts.

He wanted to make this change, and therefore he changed his position from engineer to teacher, in an aim to change kids paths to the right one.

Now we look at another character, this time just outside of school, a few steps from the south gate of our school. An old man, sitting in a chair inside his small corner shop, is the second person I am going to talk about.

This man has no other job to do, he just sells anything inside his shop to the swarms of students coming from the school, just next door. His shop is part of his house, and therefore barely pays anything for rent and such.

So, this man sits in his chair, selling packs of cigarettes to kids, and earning hundreds.

And there we go, two different people who have chosen two different paths to take in their lives. Who do you think will succeed? The teacher, or the old man?