Lessons and Growth

The lessons that life has to teach us through experience just about always seem to come too slow or too hard. The lessons we teach each other seem to do the same. If we are lucky we find ourselves at the start of our life within a loving family network that supports us and cares for us while we are incapable of doing it ourselves, if we are unlucky and do not have that luxury we rarely survive. Then after five years of being loved, finding our feet and learning what we can of this world we find ourselves in, we are tossed into school, where we learn the social skills that will continue to shape throughout our lives, we learn that bullies win, that people who claim to have authority can get people into trouble for what they do but can not stop it from happening to begin with, and we are forced to learn, in groups of twenty to thirty, learning has the fun taken out of it, and growing up seems even more urgent although it also seems less desirable somehow. From here we progress through many different life fazes with more differences between people’s life experience as we grow and shape our own, but those intense days of change shape the way we think of change for years to come, until those of us lucky to find our place in life and this world where we can continue to grow at our own pace in our own way in peace.