The Life of Learining
Oct. 11th, 2011 04:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_sn0wygooseLearn to Live, Learn for LIFE. Cossack Proverb
The more I am involved in my Graduate Studies, the more I have come to know that learning is life-long, and not in small bits. And at each stage of my life, I have come to the realization that learning is a staged event. Which passing moment and each milestone in my life an event worth cataloging.
At age 19, I was brimming with energy and enthusiasm but very little intellectual acuity. Sort of a squirell in human form. Best suited for technical education and entering the workforce. A moment of Learning to Live. Having lived, loved, made music, made love to live, it was time to move from just learning to seeing if I could learn and live.
At age 29, toward the end of undergraduate degree and looking forward to the world, it was a moment of changing from simply learning how to live, but living to see what you've learned is compatible in real live. Some worked, some did not. Much joy and much pain associated with learning, but in the end only one whom has learned can begin to live. Not as much energy as I did 10 years early, but more sound of judgement and of character.
At age 39, now with a family and change of careers, it was time to go back into the classroom for a post-grad certificate and hopefully a new direction for life. Working full time and school part time was a drain my my energies and life. I did not need the highest marks, just make progress and get the certificate. By now, I was past learning to live, but to understand that learning is not just a short process but an on-going process to appreciate life and the new joys it brings.
Now, finally, at age 49, my prospective and and goals are different from my younger days. I have embarked on a Master's Degree. I have had times which I have questioned by reasoning, and times I have rejoiced in it. Now, I am learning for Life. It is the whole of many years of learning that I am ready to take this challenge. I do not know where it will ultimately lead nor what toll it will take on my person, but I do know it will be another moment where I am learning to live.
The more I am involved in my Graduate Studies, the more I have come to know that learning is life-long, and not in small bits. And at each stage of my life, I have come to the realization that learning is a staged event. Which passing moment and each milestone in my life an event worth cataloging.
At age 19, I was brimming with energy and enthusiasm but very little intellectual acuity. Sort of a squirell in human form. Best suited for technical education and entering the workforce. A moment of Learning to Live. Having lived, loved, made music, made love to live, it was time to move from just learning to seeing if I could learn and live.
At age 29, toward the end of undergraduate degree and looking forward to the world, it was a moment of changing from simply learning how to live, but living to see what you've learned is compatible in real live. Some worked, some did not. Much joy and much pain associated with learning, but in the end only one whom has learned can begin to live. Not as much energy as I did 10 years early, but more sound of judgement and of character.
At age 39, now with a family and change of careers, it was time to go back into the classroom for a post-grad certificate and hopefully a new direction for life. Working full time and school part time was a drain my my energies and life. I did not need the highest marks, just make progress and get the certificate. By now, I was past learning to live, but to understand that learning is not just a short process but an on-going process to appreciate life and the new joys it brings.
Now, finally, at age 49, my prospective and and goals are different from my younger days. I have embarked on a Master's Degree. I have had times which I have questioned by reasoning, and times I have rejoiced in it. Now, I am learning for Life. It is the whole of many years of learning that I am ready to take this challenge. I do not know where it will ultimately lead nor what toll it will take on my person, but I do know it will be another moment where I am learning to live.
