Are you on a learning curve still. Or have you stopped?

Question

What is something new you have learnt in the last month that gave you some deeper understanding and insight.

Answer 1

In the past month I have learned that it is OK for me to not be Super-Mom or Super-Wife! I am allowed to feel down, and have days that are spent doing not much of anything.
I tend be in constant motion, doing things for my family that they can do for themselves! Just because when I was a kid, I was yelled at for being lazy (i wasn't) or that I didn't complete things fast enough or good enough for anyone's standards. So to this day I try to make everyone happy. And then spend time on myself, late at night ( like now) to get online or read or what ever!
So about 5wks ago I started to find ways to feel good about myself again and to take time off from my super powers and do the things I WANT TO DO or need to do.
It has been such a life changing experience for me. It is like for the first time in my life, I have my own permission to be "me" and do my thing. What ever that 'thing' may be!
I am happier, my family ACTUALLY understands and are happy for me too!

Answer 2

I'm definitely on a learning curve. I learned something new nearly every day, often from q/a's I see on here. Having access to the web, all sorts of information is at my finger tips.

My daughter is taking Environmental Science in college and I'm learning more about this by helping her study and looking for information on the subject. That has given me a deeper understanding that each person doing even something small can add up to large benefits for our planet.

Answer 3

We were travelling this month, and we learnt a huge amount, not only about the history and legends of the place (Egypt), but also about the people and their culture.
The day we got home, we found that our dear friend has cancer, so this week I've been reading everything I can on this type of cancer so I can be of some help when she needs to talk about it.
This month I've also read a couple of books of letters written by women who were early settlers in Australia, and another one about the lives of convicts in the early days of transportation to our country.
Some months are more productive than others - I think, too, that when you get to a mature age, you have a more highly developed sense of wanting to learn new things and to attain a greater understanding of the world and its people. Its one of the joys of getting older, that we have more free time to do this.

Answer 4

Well I'm still learning as I am currently studying for my bachelors degree in Asian Studies and History at Uni but on a personal level I think life is just one great big learning curve.

Just this week I got a job after 27 yrs raising kids!!! I learnt that someone thinks I'm employable and that I can learn new skills.

My brain is NOT made out of mashed potato. I have a new appreciation for myself and a little ego boost to think I GOT a job!!!

Answer 5

Learning the computer mysteries has been very important. I'm a gourmet cook (smiles modestly) and there is so much valuable information on the internet. I wish that when I was in college and raising kids I could have had the world wide web as a study aid. No excuses for being uneducated anymore.

Answer 6

I live life as a learning curve. Even death is part of the learning curve for me, when it comes. I won't be taking down notes, but hopefully, I'll go with a smile.
But I haven't look for something new to learn, but rather expand more on the things that I do know. Politics and sociology.

Answer 7

I'm constantly on a learning curve...as I am insatiably curious, so the internet has been my salvation!

Can't even begin to relate all the things I learn each day! But one thing I recently learned was that one cannot get too complacent in this life....things you never thought would/could happen to you CAN happen and when it does it serves as a lesson in humility!

Answer 8

i have learned that it is okay to be me, faults and all, and that I have a loving God who will forgive those faults. I had somehow fallen away from Him, at times even blaming Him for my problems. I realize now that He didn't ignore my prayers, the answer was just "no". I know that He will forgive my mistakes and as long as i keep Him in my life, all things are possible.
A - you and other new "friends" here on Y/A are partially to thank for this. I had fallen away from Him until you asked us to keep you in our thoughts and prayers about your lung problem. I really didn't think it would do any good, but I did it anyway - just in case. my prayers were answered (and many others too) when you got such good news at your scan. I am learning more every day that it is okay to ask for His help, and am hoping my prayers will be answered for other things in my life that are troubling me.
God bless you and keep you safe A -

Answer 9

I am and I do not thing I would always be there as the curve mounts higher and higher. If it starts coming down at any time I pull it up with all the force at my command and place it firmly in the skyward route.

I recently came across something which has led to the curve shooting up to so dizzy a height that I cannot dare to look down from that perch.

After reading the venom spewed forth against Israel by Mr.Ahmebnejedad ,P.M.of Iran I saw a picture (Iranian production) of the love story of a Jew Girl and a Iranian boy and the attempts to move heaven and earth he made to bring her out of the clutches of Hitler's Germany to Iran. I further learnt that there is quite a significant minory of Jews in Iran even now and that in fact they elect one Member of the Majlis. While there had been almost an Exdus of Jews the world over towafrds Israel since its formation the Jews in Iran next door to Israel have stayed and are staying put in Iran. As if this was not shocking(in a positive way) enough I also came across entries to show that during the WWII the Iranian Ambassador helped lots of Jews escape from the then Germany arranging for their escape and issued blantly false travel documents from its Paris office. I am from India and I have actuallyseen with my own eyes the sentimental scenes when Indian Jews staying in a colony on Dimtimkar Road in Mumbai(then Bombay) were onthe point of leaving India to Israel. Their Hindu and Muslim neighbours were crying and hardly able to control their emotions (which was fully reciprocated by the Jews) at the thought of neighbours of such long standing leaving them for good(But only Bhagwan/Allah knew whether for good or bad).At that time I had taken it as another example of Indian accommodation.But more people than Indians also harbour similar emotions was a revelation to me(especially Iran)If I were a Jew I would have raised my hand against my own Israel for this.

Needless to say my world had not been the same world since then nor do I want to go back to it.

Answer 10

Good question.

I learn something new every day. I have especially learned to pay attention to any "urge" to do something, talk to someone, go somewhere I hadn't planned on going/doing/saying. I've learned that's God asking me to do something and when I actually pick up on it and do what's asked, even if I don't know why, I somehow enrich someone's life in ways I couldn't imagine. It's the little things that do count.