205 - Rabbit's Quartet

The human mind was made to learn. It's what we do. We always do it. It keeps us alive, and hence when we stop learning we may as well be dead.

When we are dead we stop learning.

Thank's captain obvious

This doesn't necessarily mean academic learning. That's part of it, and the easiest way of learning, but it's not the whole picture. I would say the more significant learnings are experiences.

It's strange how we (i'll change to singular) learn to escape from ignorance. I learn because I don't want to make mistakes. I don't take the initiative because I don't want to make mistakes. I do my best to avoid embarassment or making a fool out of myself. Regarding school, I think I'm done learning. I can't claim ignorance for any mistake that I make now. This is what I've been seeking all along.

The strange part is that it just means that school is a drag now. No longer is it "today is going to be like an adventure, I can't wait to navigate around the school to find my classroom". No longer "I can't wait to see my friends, the holidays have been so long". No longer "I hope no one brings up how I tripped over on the stairs yesterday".

No hope. No anxiety. No excitement.

I'm beyond that now. I'm done learning. It's time to move on.

Well, that is, it's meant to be time to move on, but of course I still have to stick around until the end.


I just find it very strange that it's like that. That I didn't want to be ignorant. I wanted to learn as fast as possible so I could be where I am now. And now that I'm here?, now I'm done.
//please add double-punctuation to grammar, beyond the !?

I don't know if I've talked about this before. Maybe I have, but didn't quite grasp it analytically. Maybe this is the first time I've realised it.


What does this mean? It means we should cherish every moment of uncertainty., (not a semicolon) because with ignorance comes learning (unless you are ignorant in the "arrogant and stubborn mind" sense of the word), and learning is living.

How interesting was it to learn our world naturally. When we first began to be able to interpret the cacophony of sights and sounds that constantly barraged us. When we first began to coordinate ourselves to walk and talk. That was learning. That was living.

When we go to university, and get jobs (unless you've already done that), we should cherish the first few weeks when we are wondering where and what the hell is going on. Because it'll only be a few weeks before I'll feel done with university as well.

Of course it won't matter, since I'll be learning the rest of life during this time.


It means we should take opportunities to learn about things., with an open mind. Even if we believe something is full of shit, we should learn about it until we're done, so we know that it's full of shit before we make a judgement.


It probably means a lot of other things as well, but I've forgot all of it. Maybe I'll remember it some other time. The more we know, the easier we forget.