What A Joy Is Learning
What A Joy Is Learning
I’m a slow learner. I can’t keep pace with the others. After my school, student’s years I’ve raised myself to be my own teacher. Oh, what a joy is learning and it still is. To take your time to learn without being oppressed as a horse to run faster and faster.
I could learn and would like to learn even all the subjects what I did not like before and I could master the exercises without having recourse to formulas and learning by heart now. I would remember it, master it for as long as life if only I have the time. I think, Einstein’s theory of relativity could I thoroughly understand were I to have a thousand years to learn this. If Gershwin could compose a song within a minute, I gladly would do it in a year and be content with less.
“Don’t be greedy” I warned myself, “ unless you want to spoil the joy of learning. Take one or two at a time not a lot at the same time.”
Without a teacher have I learned myself to run the marathon, to improve my voice and those of my choir members of age, how to conduct, to provide myself with my own studies in harmony, furnish my own analyses of a Volley Ball match, to be a volley Ball coach, … I believe, even the slowest learner could do it if he wanted to.
I could just as well learn from books, internet and my own observations without being hurried.
I’m lucky, grateful. Perhaps God intentionally created me so that I could never be a good student of a teacher, of a professor, never be a good disciple of a great spiritual teacher or spiritual leader, in order that I could enjoy learning and be myself.
I have never written a thousand books, never got a summa cum laude PhD, a Nobel prize, became a world champion, never performed in the Carnegie Hall of Fame, … But successful am I in my eyes, not in other’s. I have my self respect, my self esteem.
July 2010
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