LEARNING

We often spend many years of our lives trying to achieve a place of personal comfort. A “safe” place, where we can feel relaxed and where we can enjoy the fruits of our labor. 

Then, eventually, we think we are finally there. And at that moment, we realize this “place” is but a figment of our imagination. That space where we thought we might feel safe, has changed. It has metamorphosed into something different or perhaps “teleported” to someplace else. A different space, a different plane, perhaps a different construct. But it is no longer there, where we were sure to find it.

We then have a choice. We either stop the search completely and exercise our frustration, or start anew, armed with whatever know-how we may have accumulated in our previous exploratory exercises.

Learning is much like that imaginary safe place. We look, we listen, we read, we study, we try to understand, and then, when we are sure that we have absorbed all we need in order to say “I know” … we come to the wonderful, but unsettling acceptance that there is much more to yet explore. 

Learning, like life itself, is a journey and not a destination. 

All the different living and learning journeys we undertake during our lives, be they short, medium, or long range, depend on our determination and mental preparedness to have a possibility of success. Some require a heavy dose of knowledge to be acquired as well. And, when this is the case, no one will do the heavy work on our behalf. We must do this part as well. 

Are you ready to accept that each of us is a part of an ever-continuing story? Even those many half-forgotten moments and events which are no longer in our “now life,” have become embedded in our history and, as such, they each become an influential element in that continuing story. 

Very few who have found financial and personal success have done so the first time around. For some, it may have taken a few go-rounds, and for others, the count may have been lost along the way. 

The common, underlying element in these journeys is the burning desire to know more, to be curious about what is and isn’t, to go beyond what is there to be seen, and to explore the unseen, unknown part of each story.

Are you ready to live and to learn? 

Are you ready to face and surmount the obstacles you will find? 

We all have the capacity to do so. We do not all sometimes have the strength and determination to undertake that journey.

But you will never know what awaits you, unless you try.