LIFE IS LEARNING

Sometimes, you don't learn things in school. You learn them from LIFE.

I know I have learnt a lot, especially this term. Yes, I did learn about Old English and the Canadian tax system over the course of this term in school, but I have picked up even more lessons from life in these short 3 months.

I have learned different approaches to different things. That different cultures take matters differently.. There is no right or wrong way of doing it; it's just what you personally prefer.

I have learned that things happen so quickly before our eyes that when we realize it, it has already taken so many twists and turns that it's going to be impossible to turn back and retrace the steps. Life is irreversible; we just gotta keep moving ahead as much as we want to go back and re-do what went wrong.

I have learned that we must treasure whatever we have and not push it aside until when we need it, it's gone. No matter how significant or insignificant something may seem, even the tiniest paper cuts on your hands are there for a reason. Everything is there because it just happens that way. We should take everything in our stride, and face it. Everything is there because it's important. We must not overlook the small things when we are looking at bigger issues at hand.

I have learned that people in our lives are to be loved, to be cherished, to be kept close to our hearts. One little action is enough to push them over the edge and into the vast ocean where we may never find them again.

I have learned never to let emotions take over your mind. When the mind is frazzled, it tends to do irrational things which will lead to the departure of the other important things around us.. A calm mind will lead to rational actions..

Yet most of all, surprisingly in contradiction to what I have said above, I have learned that sometimes we should not hold back too much. Sometimes we just need to let things flow naturally and not build artificial barriers against what we think we are afraid of. Do not build up walls against emotions. Leave a doorway for them to pass, and nature will take its course.

And that will conclude my lessons from these last months of 2009. And yes, appropriately, the night before my metaphor class's final exam, I will end with a metaphor: LIFE IS A LEARNING PROCESS. You never stop learning. Just keep that in mind; there is so much out there that life has to teach us.