Ageless Students

We learn things at a pace. Some of us learn at a faster pace and some of us slower. It is not the pace alone;  circumstances and situations that come up in life also play a pivotal role. These circumstances that arise in each of our lives are so distinct from the person sitting right next to us. The lessons learnt are so different and the whole methodology is so very distinct as well. There is a lesson in everything and everyone around us. Hence, it is of pivotal importance that we keep our eyes and minds open, to observe and learn from these great teachers around us. Happiness, sorrow, wealth, poverty, married life, single life, children, not being able to have children, the old flock, the young, faithfulness, laziness, kings, beggars, flowers, birds wild animals, cattle, wind, fire.... the list keeps going on.... everything in life reveals to us a new lesson. I guess, I can dare to say, "foolish is the man who thinks that he has understood it all, and there remains nothing to be learnt." It does not matter at what age one says that, it will turn us into the very personification of foolishness.

Every culture has had and still does have its own schools and approaches to wisdom. Even though psychologists have avoided wisdom from their textbooks, it is refreshing to know that, this trend is slowly changing, thanks to people like Vivian Clayton. Wisdom reveals itself (herself) to those who keep their eyes and minds open; those who acknowledge the experiences of life as teachers. How to learn from experiences is another great dimension in our approach to wisdom. Loosing a battle and hence learning the lesson that victory can never be achieved is the lack of understanding as to how to takes notes from the teacher named life in the classrooms of experience. One needs a teacher to reveal a method to approach the school called life. This teacher should be chosen with much care, for if you choose a teacher who is not well equipped to look deep and help you look deeper, then you stand the great risk of a shipwreck. The greatest problem of our generation is, we are all self-proclaimed teachers and have lost the humility of being a good student. It is only a good and humble student of today that will turn into the greatest teacher of tomorrow. Life is an unending schooling process, each moment becomes a teacher thus transforming us into ageless students.