Learn Well

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
-Morihei Ueshiba

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
-Morihei Ueshiba

That is what I have for my wish to instill into everyone. That everything is learning, each instant in our lives a time to be taught, if we are but prepared to accept that which is being offered.

I have posted before about learning from my surroundings, and how I must have missed many lessons. That is the casualty of our time; the lessons we don't stop to see being taught. We are in an immediate gratification time in history. Our desire for it has caused a global crisis of nearly unstoppable proportions. Will we be able to curb our wanton desires in time?

Whether environment or economy, we have brought the change upon ourselves by desiring more than we were readily able to maintain. I must admit, in my desires to assist and for blindly following at times poor advice, I too am in a bad situation.

I have increased my debt, and my hardships beyond manageable reasons. I even told my nephew, that I used to have a life, before I made these poor choices, and the cautions of credit.