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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Everyday Canvas
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
David Whyte
This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
January 10, 2017 at 6:51pm January 10, 2017 at 6:51pm
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Prompt: One of my sons came home from the second day of his Kindergarten career and announced, “I learned enough.” Taking your whole life into account, have you learned enough or at least as much as you’d like to have learned?
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I might have learned a lot but not enough. I would have loved to learn more, a lot more. Yet, to learn more, I probably need several additional lifetimes. Cross that. I need an infinite number of lifetimes because all knowledge multiplies, and possibly before it started multiplying, it was unreachably vast in the first place.
The study of psychology says learning is a key process in human behavior. I have to say that learning is a key component for the welfare of all living beings. A raptor that hasn’t learned hunting, for example, cannot live, build a nest, or even adjust to the weather and other conditions of its environment. Practice and experience make up what learning is, and a true learning continues with a change in behavior for any amount of time.
There are many areas of learning aside from theoretical and scientific knowledge, such as attitudes, problem solving, training the physical body, training the mental reactional behavior, etc. The best kind of learning, I think, is learning how to learn and learning to share what we have learned.
I don’t think I have mastered all of the above-mentioned learning areas, let alone all the established knowledge even in the specific areas I have studied. As I mentioned earlier, one lifetime is never enough, no matter how advanced one’s mental capacity for learning is.
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