Last few months I suddenly got the strong urge to start reading inspirational and management books. They give me food for thought, about my life, about myself, people I love and lot more. I felt that now the time has come to start to know myself. Get to know what I really want to do in my life. What do I expect from my life and am I living it the way I want. I believe I’m here on this earth for a purpose and that it’s important I will search for what that purpose is.
I suppose almost everyone has such a moment in their lives that they start asking themselves such questions. But should we wait for that critical moment to come? There will also be people who will never think about these matters. All those important life lessons I learn from these amazing books will be a secret for these people forever. This made me wondering why teaching these so-called life lessons isn’t integrated in our school or college curricula.
Should life lessons be taught at schools or colleges?
You can discuss a lot about this question. One argument against the option is that everyone has a different opinion about how one should live his of her life. And that people don’t want to think about it. But I think it cannot do any harm trying to think about what life is and that we should appreciate it.
Another point is lack of time at schools and colleges. Time is considered very important and I can imagine schools and colleges believe life lessons should be learned in own time or at home. I don’t know if I should agree on the lack of time, because if one really wants you can make time for it. And talking about life lessons at schools or colleges is in my opinion way better, because everyone comes from a different environment, which makes the discussion on these topics even more interesting.
Others will ask you why you don’t choose the subject of Philosophy, which is given at some schools, to discuss this kind of questions. I don’t think one can reach really every student with this subject, because very often the matter studied in these classes is quite difficult, whilst just talking about life and life lessons from great and wise people can be done in a very easy way.
One option I also would like, to then just start a club or society within schools or colleges in which you can discuss about this all and give each other lectures on subjects etc. It will improve our spiritual and intellectual development a lot!
I don’t know in what way life lessons already have been implemented in other schools and/or colleges. But I have not seen something like life lessons, or just how to handle problems in life, being taught at an educational institution till today.
I think it should be taught at schools or colleges and hopefully this will happen somewhere in the future, for the benefit of us all.
donderdag 18 maart 2010
zaterdag 6 maart 2010
Capturing Memories
Why is it that we want to capture almost everything around us, to keep it as a memory?
Probably our biological hard disks, our brains, alone are not enough to save everything we do and want to remember. On the other hand we have memories we would love to erase if we could, bad or shameful experiences. Sometimes we are not able to make ourselves forget those memories.
From the prehistoric times on humans started to make cave paintings. Drawings and paintings have been important tools to keep memories. One of the other media was through memorizing songs or poems in order to pass important information on to younger generations. When we learned how to write, we started keeping diaries and writing books. In this way we could share our memories with an even bigger audience. From last few centuries on things went very fast. When photography and film cameras came, we were able to capture every tiny detail of our lives. When you go to a birthday party, on a dinner, on holiday and so on, we always carry our photo cameras. If we don’t have those, we at least have our cell phones with build in photo cameras. So not to worry, anywhere we have the opportunity to capture that memory. And what to say about this blog? This is capturing a memory too. With computer technology introducing the Internet to us, explosions of memories have been fired; they grew like weed and invaded the Internet like germs. There is zero wastage of memory. Is that the way we want it?
In fact our whole history is one big memory. We want to use memories to learn things from the past, to remember how we should do things, how much progression and evolution has been taken place from time to time. Most of the time we want to have our memories so we don’t forget what good moments we shared in our lives. Our precious memories, the whole process of capturing them in our brains or with other media, it still seems all very magical to me.
Probably our biological hard disks, our brains, alone are not enough to save everything we do and want to remember. On the other hand we have memories we would love to erase if we could, bad or shameful experiences. Sometimes we are not able to make ourselves forget those memories.
From the prehistoric times on humans started to make cave paintings. Drawings and paintings have been important tools to keep memories. One of the other media was through memorizing songs or poems in order to pass important information on to younger generations. When we learned how to write, we started keeping diaries and writing books. In this way we could share our memories with an even bigger audience. From last few centuries on things went very fast. When photography and film cameras came, we were able to capture every tiny detail of our lives. When you go to a birthday party, on a dinner, on holiday and so on, we always carry our photo cameras. If we don’t have those, we at least have our cell phones with build in photo cameras. So not to worry, anywhere we have the opportunity to capture that memory. And what to say about this blog? This is capturing a memory too. With computer technology introducing the Internet to us, explosions of memories have been fired; they grew like weed and invaded the Internet like germs. There is zero wastage of memory. Is that the way we want it?
In fact our whole history is one big memory. We want to use memories to learn things from the past, to remember how we should do things, how much progression and evolution has been taken place from time to time. Most of the time we want to have our memories so we don’t forget what good moments we shared in our lives. Our precious memories, the whole process of capturing them in our brains or with other media, it still seems all very magical to me.
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