My 6 year old daughter has this peculiar desire to learn how to play chess. Despite my lack of superb chess playing skill, I knew I could teach her the basics. So we sat down this past Saturday morning and fought it out on the chess board. I’m not one to “let my kids win,” yet I point out the good, bad, and downright ugly catastrophic moves. Along the way I absolutely relished watching her mind THINK. I could see her eyes look at a piece and play out the next couple sequential moves in her head. Occasionally her eyes would “light up,” with excitement and her mouth would drop open wide with a smile as she would swipe one of my pieces off the board.
Watching her learn this game of chess made me realize we are never supposed to stop learning. Life is made so much more rich and fulfilling when we are ever expanding our Minds and accumulating those “light bulb,” moments.
Those “light bulb,” moments is where experience imprints itself upon us. Those “light bulb” moments become ingrained so we never forget them. That is where experience creates Wisdom.
We can choose to go about our lives content and satisfied, or worse, cynical and judgmental ~ assuming we know it all about our world OR we can search out and discover what that unconscious desire for growth and expansion is all about in this thing we call LIFE.
Our challenge to you is to engage LIFE to the fullest!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment