Live and Learn

As the year 2015 coming to end; while in rumination my thoughts are with the objects, places and people that I have learned for and learned from.  Kids at home, life at outside and “I” “Inside”  are always bludgeoning me to set up new standards for my learning capabilities in life. I am now inured to the most of the tactics. Sometimes, I cram many into my brain and it groans silently. My brain devoured and kink-kinked with the stuff that I poured into. So, learning is not a preparation for life; learning is life itself. “A man- what he knows, i.e., what he has learnt”. We learn from experience, we learn by making mistakes, we learn from history, both past and present.We should not be afraid of making mistakes. The man who never makes mistakes loses a great many chances to learn something. The only complete mistake is the mistake from which we learn nothing.

There is no such a creature as a know-all man. Oddly enough it is the person who knows everything who has the most to learn. Michelangelo died at the age of 89. In dying he regretted not the joy of having but his interrupted labors. He said to his Cardinal who was ministering to him on his death bed that he regretted only two things: not to have done he should have for his salvation and to be dying just as he was learning the alphabet of his profession.

For men and women new learning is a necessary for growth.I believe in “Undertake something that is difficult ; it will do you good”. Unless you try  to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will snuffle to grow.

There is no particular calendar age for learning. I saw people who says that “It’s too late for me to learn”.  I do have seen people say this ” You can’t teach old dogs new tricks.”.’ Old parrots can’t learn”.This is how they rationalize their laziness to learn. Such-half baked maxims are fallacies.They are the alibis of the folk who say ‘No’ to life.

Of course, man does age. With old age come an impairment of memory, particularly for recent events; and a reduction in the rate of new learning. But investigations show that all individuals do not age in the same way nor all the organs of the body at the same rate. The effects of aging always depends on the individual. Some men and women are old fifty five and others are young at eighty.Continual exposure to new learning, new ideas help older people to keep their mental faculties alert and thus retard the process of aging.

“Education should ever stop. When learning stops, vegetation sets in”.As the year 2016 commences out soon, let me hope that the learning of life continues without much of a laziness. Let me wish myself and you for better wisdom and better insight to understand the true meaning of life “Within”. Let the new facades of life makes us strong and human.

#Learn #Live #Happy holidays.

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