Life is "Learning"-Day 61

Happy Friday. May you enjoy this day better than you did yesterday.

One thing that I am absolutely sure of is that life is a learning process, and when we stop learning, we stop living. What is learning? What does it actually mean to learn?

Learning- the act or process of acquiring knowledge or skill; Psychology. the modification of behavior through practice, training, or experience.

I love defining words because it is also a learning process for me. Because to really understand any topic, you must first know what "it" means. In most cases, we do not understand "key" words in various topics, such as the "deficit". To really understand what our country is going through economically, we must understand what a deficit is. If we do not understand key terms, we are lost from the beginning.

One day I was at the library with my daughter and we ran into a teacher that we met last year at her former school. This teacher had recently had heart surgery. But she invited my daughter and me to her home for a "salad". We accepted the invitation and followed this teacher to her home. When we got there, we met her sister, an elderly lady of about 70 years of age. Her sister appeared pretty "competent" to me.

Moreover, we all got into a conversation about the lack of Black progress, and we discussed the importance of education. I asked the sister what books she enjoyed reading and to my shock and simultaneous dismay, she told me that she does NOT read. I asked her why, and she replied "she was too old to learn". What.... are you serious, are you still breathing?

I asked her if she was serious, and when she told me she was indeed serious. I told her that a person is NEVER too old to learn. Life is about learning something new everyday, while we have the opportunity to live. I told her that life is learning.

She told me that while her sister teaches during the school days , she "passes the time" by just "sitting and watching television all day".

I felt so sad for her. My daughter looked at me, and I shook my head in complete disapproval. My daughter shared with this elderly lady that "no one knows everything and this means that you can still learn".

But this lady was not interested. She had made up her mind that she was "too old to learn".

In my most humble opinion, this lady is the walking dead. She has know inspiration to learn. She is just an observer of life as opposed to a participant.

Observer-someone or something that observes.

Observe-to see, watch, perceive, or notice.

Participant-a person or group that participates; partaker.

Life is for the living. The living should learn something new everyday.

What have you learned today?

Best Regard,



L. for Love