Teaching.
I am still on this Life's series and you can catch up with the other posts I've made on this Life's series, for you to fully understand each topic but still, each post is self-explanatory.
Today, I would be talking about "Life Is About Teaching."
Life teaches but the sad thing is that most people are not ready to learn. They would rather hold on to their view of things and hold on to their desire to be right rather than to learn. Life has been designed to teach us but we have to be able to open our hearts to learn.
Nature teaches and even everything we see around teaches. If anyone has taken careful consideration to understand how ants operate then we would see that we can learn from them. The ants would gather all the food they need when the ground is dry (dry season). They keep storing as much as they can but when the rainy season starts, they stay in and feast on what they have gathered.
They had no leader yet they do things orderly and here we are as humans, we are the most disorganized creature on earth. They also are not fazed by anything because they believe so much in teamwork but see humans, they would rather scatter things, make others look bad rather than join hands to achieve a common goal. For humans, it's always about who takes the glory rather than joining hands to do what would benefit both parties in the long run.
We suffer a lot as humans because we are shortsighted. We don't think too far ahead because we are not open to being taught and life wants to teach us. This life is about teaching so we have to be taught as much as we are to teach others too.
A little child can teach you and even nature can teach you about patience. Most people want to gather all the experience and still make others suffer so they can go through what they went through. That's witchcraft and I am not sorry to say that. If you can make the journey of other people easier by teaching them the things you have known, won't that be nice rather than make them go through the same process because you want them to understand what "suffering" is all about... Come on!
I have heard a lot of wealthy folks say they would make their children also suffer because they want them to "be taught". I understand where they are coming from but I am sorry, it's pure madness because there are better ways you can teach them without subjecting them to the rigour of the suffering you went through. This is the whole essence of communication and leading a life of impact.
This is why we read books; to be taught...to alleviate our ignorance so we can do better because when we know better then we can do better. Whatever you teach others you are helping their ignorance because they didn't know and now they know. It also goes both ways because when you teach others, it's hard for you to forget those teachings and it serves as a reminder for you as well to know where you are coming from. It also helps to keep you grounded.
As humans, we have that tendency to forget things sometimes especially when we have overcome a particular challenge but when we teach others, we are reminding ourselves of where we are coming from. Teaching others is important in life but that person must be ready to receive it too. You can't force teaching on anyone, we have that with most educational systems but with life, it has to be received.
There are many things we can teach each other. We have general knowledge, we have academics, we have those who are vast in politics or other aspects and we also have personal experiences too. The truth is, everything we have been taught in life, doesn't have to end with us. It doesn't have to be for us alone, we need to teach others too.
We are to pass down those valuable lessons that we have been taught through several experiences. We need to teach others so they can understand that they are not alone in that struggle. You know others can quickly get over an issue when they know someone has gone through it and came out of it because we tend to sometimes think the problem we have is peculiar to us but the moment we know we are not alone in it, it gives strength to push ahead and that's why teaching and helping one another through teaching is valuable.
What are you teaching others? Our experiences in life are valuable and should be taught to others to make their journey faster and maybe easier. This life doesn't come with a manual that's why we should be intentional about teaching others the things we know but if they are not willing to be taught, just let go, they are not yours. We need to have a better perspective on this life because teaching others is not necessarily a function of who is older. A younger person can teach an older person since life deals with all of us differently. We also need to be careful about what we teach others because it can either make or mar them.
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We should teach others what would benefit them.
Thanks for teaching us this.