Thursday, April 3, 2008

say what?

I never thought that life would be quite like this! I am ever so amazed at how many things that I don't know. I swear that it seems as though I am learning ten completely different things a day this last month. I know I said in one of my early blog entries that if we aren't learning something everyday that I don't know why we are on this mud ball, or something to that sort of thought. But wow I feel as if I am going into sensory overload. The flip side of this is the fact that I absolutely love this feeling...of pushing my grey matter to the limit. The flip flip side to this is the idea that a lot of the stuff I am learning would probably not even get a yawn from most of my readers. Its amazes me how we react to stuff that we already know, or is assumed to know. As opposed to the things that we learn for the first time. I am not sure why we act / react to these things in the manner that we do, but it does strike me as interesting. Why are we not as excited about someone elses learning experiences like we are our own? Does that make us shallow or indifferent or callous? Or could it be that our ego just kicks in to tell ourselves that hah...we already knew that,... to cover up for the things that deep down in our psyche ... we know that their are things in this life that we know absolutely nothing about, but feel as though we should already know these things... at this point in our life. Because we also know that at some point we are going to be at that first time learner level as well. When someone else will be standing their next to us thinking what we are thinking now... that we should have already learned that... Wow, the ego is an amazing thing!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

different than what I expected. Fascinating as well. Ballroom dancing? I am sorry I missed your presentation for I feel I could have learned much more. Maybe on Saturday you can enlighten me. as a friend and fellow naturalist.

Yohon said...

Come see me. We'll talk. Yeah... this blog is like my life, at times it is different then what I expected! We have hunting,fishing, outdoors,ballroom dancing....what the....where did that come from? :) lol !