Lifelong Learning A Conscious Choice

Thank you very much for stopping by.
I'm still getting my head around what I'm doing right now, blogging. It's so unbelievable I tell you, even though I am actually doing it. I guess that's why someone once said " no one knows how to reach a goal until they've reached it."

My thoughts these days are on learning. I am so grateful that my parents were enlightened to know the value of education. My mum is a retired primary school teacher, when she retired she had been headteacher for about +/-16 years if I'm not mistaken. She used to tell us (I have 3 brothers and 3 sisters) that we should study and get the highest degrees, since she wasn't able to get them. By God's grace, we all finished high school and did some tertiary education. My dad recently commented on how he finds it amazing that he's the only one in his family who went to school. When asked how that happened, was he the favourite of his parents? He says he just had the desire to learn and he went to school, even though he was already much older than the school going age. This allowed him to get a job inside a sugar mill, later on he was called to be a pastor and he went to bible school for four years, gaining a diploma.
You may be wondering: why all these stories!

In my short life here on earth, I realise each day that, though living in the lucky first world country, second world or poorest third world country; what a person does with their current situation is a personal choice. How they feel and react is also up to an individual. In any given situation, I possess the will and power to act according to what my thoughts, feelings and actions are with that given situation or individual. I experience this all the time with my three kids, aged 7,4 and 2. I find that my toleration is very long for the baby, and it becomes shorter as the ages go up. If I engage my thoughts in the process, I find it much easier to be more accomodating even for my big girl. What is interesting also is that I become very angry when she exhibits a character of mine which I don't like, can you identify with that?

One of my maths lecturers once said: A teacher has to be three times ahead of his/her students. He said you don't study what your students are studying, be more knowledgeable. A thought flashed in my mind when I was thinking of how much of what I have learnt I am applying. I was starting to feel stressed that I know so much, but I'm doing so little of it. That is when it dawned on me that it takes time to unlearn some things so that I can learn new things, and that it is a process, not an overnight thing.( that should make you feel good, isn't it?) It does make me kinder to myself and allow myself the time to grow. I'm still a huge work in progress, but I'm not where I used to be, whoa! Thank God!

As I was typing this, I was teaching my four year old girl letters on the computer. She can sing the abc song, but she still have to identify them in big and small letters. She chose to sit and play, according to her, but I realised that I'm actually doing a lesson with her. A bonus is that my boy has a companion to play with today, and I'm so happy and grateful to experience that.

Life I have come to realise is each day an opportunity to START AFRESH, TO LEARN, TO GROW. A living thing, if it's not growing, it starts to decompose.

I choose to EXPAND today, I choose to GROW. How about you?

Thanks again for spending your time here.

Cheers:)