If we talk about learning, commonly we will associate with school, college, degree, and other formal education or training. From school and college we know about mathematics, life science, languages, geography, social science, arts, and other basic knowledge.
The most exciting moment is when we graduated, especially in high school degree and college degree. We will feel like all the achievements, all the knowledge that we’ve been experienced during that time, attains the climax point.
It is not totally wrong perception, however the next step after that graduation is the real experience when everything we’ve got will be applied in the real life. Some people failed to understand the reality, and even worse, some others cannot face the reality that lies in front of them. This should be questioned where is the essences of the education that they experiences before.
J. Krishnamurti a writer and philosopher once said that “The highest function of education is to bring about an integrated individual who is capable of dealing with life as a whole”. So it’s should be impossible that an educated graduate cannot face the reality in his/her life.
Life itself is an arena, arena that everybody can learn about everything, good or bad, right or wrong, large or small, high or low, kind or cheap, and so on. The real arena for us to learn is our life itself; education is only tools for us to get the basic knowledge and basic provision for experiencing the life. Imagine that education is only a diorama, the miniature of life that we have to face.
Basically, we can’t stop learning, all sense that we posses can’t stop operate. As long as we alive, as long as our sense still can sensing, our learning process can’t be stop. Life is a never stop process, we have to learn in every life milestone that we will carry out. Every life milestone will present something new in our life, something that we’ve never experienced before. This required the ability to adapt to something new.
How?? by learning. Human are provided by intelligence and heart, this two things is the main reason that human can evolve, human can adapt, and human can learn. The main problem is the encouragement level, the motivation, the purpose, the reason why we have to live the life. The main parameter to live the life is to define the purpose. Imagine that this life is a journey, because life is something dynamic, not something static. In a journey, we have to define our destination, our purpose. Also we have to prepare all provisions for the journey, although the journey itself is an uncertain thing.
Benjamin Franklin ever said “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”. Life is branched paths, the only thing that we have to do is choosing, as simple as that. We can choose to care about our self or no, we can choose to make preparation or no, we can choose to do the right things or the wrong way, and many choices that we have to make. Even to decide our choice needs something called motivation.
This motivation shall be built by our self, there’s nothing or no one can built the motivation. Motivation itself is a personal thing, other people can give us another perspective about life, can give advises, persuade us, but the decision that moves the motivation will come from our self. No matter how hard other people give us advises, give us picture of other perspectives, but the one who will turn the motivation wheel on is our self.
So by talking about life, we will talk about process, purpose, journey, destination, preparation, motivation, choices. Life itself is formed from what we think, like Shakespeare ever said “There is nothing either bad good or bad, but thinking makes it so”. The one who can shape our life is our self; our life is like what we think. We can control our perspective when we see something, we can always have negative perspective or we can change it to a positive point of view. But remember, we are what we think, if we always have negative think, our world we be shaped negatively, vice versa.
Life is bunch of branched path that we have to choose, but every decision we choose will comes with consequences. Many people not ready for what comes with their choices, either it will please us or makes us grieve. Life will not always be containing with joy, but the reality, everything is created in a pair, and sometimes life will give us grief, misery, tears, and sadness. Many people fail to understand that life is also created in a pair, there will be light and dark, big and small, wide and narrow, good and bad. This failure can cause small mind that life is only a bunch of joy. This also caused people to fail to understand the reality that we have to face every day.
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