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Growing up, people would always say "You learn something new each day.". Well; I am learning that it is true. The word New, means "lately coming into knowledge, fresh or unused, unaccustomed, or recently/lately". So it doesn't necessarily mean that you have never before heard something but that it has now finally become knowledge. And the word Learn means “to gain by experience, to become informed of or acquainted with". So really the new thing I/we learn is just some fresh information. Or it can also be something that we are unaccustomed to that we gain by experience. I don't believe that when you hear something you learn it. You learn it once you can apply it physically or mentally. You learn it once you understand it. I also believe that everything happens for a reason, and that we come to realize things on certain days for a reason. So everyday I will be sharing with you the new thing that I learn or realize, hoping that you can learn from it as I did.

Feel free to comment or even post about your own realization or new thing that was learned.

Monday, October 4, 2010

No child in us

Why is it that a child can accomplish more than an adult? Maybe because they know no danger. Or they have never lost the trust of a person before.
What ever it is I believe we all need to be more like children.
I was at the park today with a 6yr old boy I was watching and we went over to the monkey bars to play and there happened to be three other children there. The boy I was watching walked right up to them and started talking to them like he had known them his whole six year old life. And what was even better was they talked back like it was no big deal. Later on a small boy came up to me (whom I did not know) and asked me to help him with the monkey bars. Once I was done I just stood back and watched these boys play and as I did, the smaller one would say how he was going to try something and the boy whom I was watching offered to help him so casually I was a bit astonished.
I mean, these kids had never met, yet could walk up to each other and carry on a pleasant conversation. And these kids who probably wouldn't care if they ever saw the other again in their life were willing to stop from sliding to help the other with whatever they needed.
Why can't we be like that?  Why is it that we are so scared as to what the other person is thinking to just sit down and talk with them? Why is it that when we see someone in need of help. We can't help untill we are done helping ourselves. Or just simply pass them by for the next person to ignore.
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  1. MichaelDavidAbbottOctober 22, 2010 at 10:23 AM

    This is a really good observation. I will make it a priority today to help others before I help myself. Thanks Mila for keeping me on my toes and helping me stay focused on others instead of myself.

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