This may very well be the last semester of formal education for me. While learning is an integral part of everyday life, this may be the last time I attend a class in the University. It will be Racquetball this time. Rather a nice finish to my geeky life so far. Hopefully, rather than an end to education, this will mark a start to a new life....a life that focuses on an overall balance of health, wealth and wisdom.
However excited I am to learn Racquetball, I am quite scared to go and play it in a classroom full of adults. I am really scared of making a fool of myself. This is when I got to thinking that unusual as it may seem, how come in the last 21 years of my formal education, no one has been able to teach me that it is OK to make a fool of oneself once in a while. I mean it's really OK....to fail, for instance and to not learn something as soon you get your hands on it. Another lesson, which should have followed this one, is the importance of doing something daily to attain perfection. Flew right by, all these years! Twenty-fucking-one of them! How? I mean seriously how?
Seems like the education of two amazing countries just failed. Big names of the places I have been just rubbing their noses in mud. I really wish there was a similar system of education. One which may fail to teach you all the history of the world, or the best of European literature or twenty different languages, but somehow drilled it into you a very very simple basic lesson for life.....
1. You will fail. In fact, you must! It's OK. It really is. Believe it or not!
2. Then, you pull your act together and get to it. Not once, not twice, not a thousand times, but every fucking day of our life. You just get to it with your whole heart and mind and soul, until one fine day you do win. And trust me, you will.
It's so simple! My new "life's" resolution is that...Try your hand at whatever your heart wants. You'll either get what you want or you'll learn a thing or two about life. Please don't quit. You do indeed lose all of the shots you don't take. Put your heart and soul into it. You can do it! Whatever it may be, you can do it!
You'll fail in life, many many times, but by working on it day-by-day you'll achieve what your heart truly desires.
However excited I am to learn Racquetball, I am quite scared to go and play it in a classroom full of adults. I am really scared of making a fool of myself. This is when I got to thinking that unusual as it may seem, how come in the last 21 years of my formal education, no one has been able to teach me that it is OK to make a fool of oneself once in a while. I mean it's really OK....to fail, for instance and to not learn something as soon you get your hands on it. Another lesson, which should have followed this one, is the importance of doing something daily to attain perfection. Flew right by, all these years! Twenty-fucking-one of them! How? I mean seriously how?
Seems like the education of two amazing countries just failed. Big names of the places I have been just rubbing their noses in mud. I really wish there was a similar system of education. One which may fail to teach you all the history of the world, or the best of European literature or twenty different languages, but somehow drilled it into you a very very simple basic lesson for life.....
1. You will fail. In fact, you must! It's OK. It really is. Believe it or not!
2. Then, you pull your act together and get to it. Not once, not twice, not a thousand times, but every fucking day of our life. You just get to it with your whole heart and mind and soul, until one fine day you do win. And trust me, you will.
It's so simple! My new "life's" resolution is that...Try your hand at whatever your heart wants. You'll either get what you want or you'll learn a thing or two about life. Please don't quit. You do indeed lose all of the shots you don't take. Put your heart and soul into it. You can do it! Whatever it may be, you can do it!
You'll fail in life, many many times, but by working on it day-by-day you'll achieve what your heart truly desires.
