I think I should start with poverty
I come from a school of hard knocks myself. Perhaps 3 billion or more people know what that means. I find poverty inspires a whole host of things from within; most forwardly: Hope, though inventiveness and imagination are often expressed through necessity, given the extent to which the poor inevitably suffer. The added strife financial ruin most certainly brings on enough stress to trigger a heart attack, unless one, through cunning of their own making, should decide it isn’t worth becoming aggravated about!
Learning, as it turns out, is at the convenience of any free library, The Internet, colleagues and friends, family, Priest, racoon, you name it, everyone has free access to it all. This is but one way the poor can truly be free! Another to take vengeance out on the rich, lol, is to lead a productive, healthy and resourceful, content, though often cautious life-style. Mind you, learning is necessary to finding your way around many obstacles in life, rich or poor. Also, these are things no one will take from you because to them, they’re just metaphors for other things on the way to financial freedom. And that’s OK, if that’s your thing. Though others would attest to wisdom (applied knowledge through experience) as being the more valuable of the two pursuits, seeing as how wisdom already starts out without boundaries to certain freedoms; like just throwing your feet up and relaxing or curling up with a good book.
“Knowledge isn’t the most important thing in the world. Imagination is!”
: Albert Einstein.
Growing old isn’t for Wimps!
As we age, we may mellow and progress through life in a less incumbered way because we begin to realize what once seemed important pales beside waking up not being able to breathe! Or, the simple act of swallowing may become an adventure. Some days, you’re ready to take on the world again, and others, you’d just as soon the world continued without you. Even so, you know you must develop a crusty interior, or be swallowed up by the very world you once sought to support.
The rewards of aging gracefully, have truly served a deeper learning for me. Funny how you can observe solutions to your problems as wisdom adds a view of “What’s in it for me?” as a hindrance rather than an asset. At least for me, and I’m 67, this is the best time in my life for learning new things! Why? When you’ve lived longer than most people already (world-wide), you pretty much figure you’ve got nothing to loose. Or, everything you physically possessed is gone now, so learning comes in handy if not just to fight boredom because TV sucks more than ever before!.
All is not as it seems…
Even to a bug, things can look much different to the way we see things. What’s the most dangerous creature on earth? The mosquito. There’s another kind of blood sucker that takes on human form; those who profit from the weaknesses of others. Advertisers know something about how the majority of people will react to their product. They count on certain factors, such as colours that are pleasing to the human eye, most especially in certain combinations, to effect sales. Certain words: “Fantastic, Incredible, Thrifty, FREE, 30% MORE, just to name a few. They’re also counting on you not looking further into what you buy, mainly because you’re always rushed for time. You want a for instance… OK…
How many people take supplements? About 52% of us in the free world. And how many of those take Co-Q10? It’s a popular supplement to help sustain healthy mitochondria, so I’m going to hazard a guess at 20% That’s still a lot of people! Well did you know that your body will only take in 15% of this particular supplement pill you ingest? The instructions say take two 150 mgs. capsules daily. What you would actually need, is 14 capsules! So there you have it, one thing among trillions, that is NOT what it seems to be.
The old saying: “Never judge a book by its cover” is aptly applied here. If learning through our entire lives gives us nothing else, it’s an ability to uncover the truth! What you do with this truth, is entirely speculative, as one’s view of truth, often differs from person to person. I only know that the discipline of successful application achieved through learning is invaluable to my survival; both as a compassionate, responsible person and as a living, breathing individual, with substance, character, imagination, and an insatiable apatite for learning. This is impossible without experience! Make it your business to try just 5 new things a day, and you’ll be surprised how scathingly clever you become at harvesting information in so many beneficial ways! Not that you aren’t brutally intelligent anyway. Most would agree, the learned among us are sexy ;0)
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