I heard two really great things last night. Someone said you must seek knowledge and love learning your whole life. Information is out there but you have to make yourself accessible.
I was thinking the other day, what a distracted student I was. School was really a social event to me. My parents never made a big deal about grades. Unless they were awful they never seemed to care. We weren't presented with college as a viable option. In fact, I'm the only one who wanted and did go to college from my family.
It's only been, as I've gotten older that I realize how much I love learning. It is truly my passion. I could never be in a relationship with a mental loafer I know this. Astuteness and surrounding myself with people who can impart wisdom is utmost in my mind, seriously.
I'm always, always pushing myself to the next level. I constantly come across new people whom I think I will learn from because they intrigue me. Now with that said I don't really know what the next level is or exactly how I'm supposed to get there. I have actually contacted some very astute people and presented them with this question, as if they could answer it for me.
I find myself back at square one with something. Why am I back as square one? Because I didn't listen to myself the last time this came up for me. When the going got rough, I backed down and went back to what I knew. Surprise! There is that vacant feeling again.
No, education never ends. Today I will get quiet and listen for new insights.
| Posted by: Tony | July 15, 2005 06:11 PM |
Liz you can never go back to square one – don’t make me come over there and wag my finger at you! - learning is not a linier progression from here to there it is more like evolution, an organic process. Awards, diplomas, exams are simply milestones on a path that may be for you but may not be. Most, if not all, of the great philosophers were self taught because they were driven to think not to get a degree in thinking. Forget about the next level – it is illusion – life is about growth and nothingness ( sorry waxing Buddhist here) all the rest is static If you can, as Kipling put it, ‘fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run’ then you are on the right level and no need to worry! |