On 3 June, 03:30, kenny <[email protected]> wrote:
> if someone were to ask me to sum up the best thought i could to
> explain what i call living i would say... it is trying to treat people
> as who they are in situations. to try and have people see the other
> side that they are blind to. we, i think, are all blind somewhere.
> some people have issues...many different kinds. i think it is fun to
> explore, challange, and dominate others. guess it is in my nature. and
> when someone gets the best of me then i have learned something about
> myself.
Yes, perhaps the best thing about losing an argument is that it
affords you the certain knowledge that you, obviously, didn't have
that would have won you the argument. Perhaps then, living is for
learning. And, of course, there are two main opportunities for
learning:
1) learning from a standpoint of ignorance
and
2) learning from having made a 'mistake'
Learning from a standpoint of ignorance is addressed, these days,
through education, by teaching our children certain basic facts in an
orderly fashion so that they can take that knowledge with them into
their later years. Any additional 'education' we do also falls into
this category.
The only other opportunity that life presents us with is when we make
a 'mistake'. By 'mistake', I mean, the kind of things where our
expectations of a result were different from the actual result. It
may be that our 'means of achieving the result' was not correct or it
may be that our expectations could have been different. Either way,
we are afforded a chance to learn and a chance to correct either our
expectations or our means of achieving a particular result.
