Learning
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Routine saps our energy. So much so that too often we just do because we do. We don't stop to check why. Learning is doing, seeing, listening to something new. We need to learn. We need to learn each day. Growth comes from newness, not routine.
Recently I asked a friend at Opportunity Village why is learning important. She said, "I think that it is fun to learn different things in the world and so people can learn some new things maybe in the newspaper or maybe listening to on television." In the screenplay, "My Dinner with André," Shawn and Gregory say that learning is easier for children since they are not caught up in routine: "Grown-ups were learning how to play again. I think I experienced for the first time in my life to know what it means to be truly alive. We talked from midnight till eleven the next morning. ...we're all too busy performing. We're concentrating on playing our own roles...so we can't perceive what's going on around us." So be open to something new today. Do something different. It'll take you to a new place. A place where you learn. And where there's learning, there's growth. Open a book. Take a walk in the woods. Make a new friend. You'll learn a lot. |
Jim Holcombe
Marion, IA