Learning.
Considering career prospects, looking up jobs, and talking to people who are already in the working world sort of put me in a position to think a whole lot about this. I've been mulling over what I have learned in all my years of tertiary education that would contribute to my career and the organization to which I would belong. But how would you define learning? What sort of criteria would you need to safely say that you've "learned" something?
And then it took me back to my years in life - school, university, church, relationships. There were so many things that I learned about, but that I didn't exactly apply. Clearly, in this context, to learn about something simply means to become aware of something. It's quite sad to also realize that many of these things would soon be forgotten - sometimes even in less than a week. Like I was taught that using "I" messages would be more effective than using "You" messages, particularly when conveying feelings of frustration or anger. But I'm not quite sure if any of these theoretical ideas in my head would even be present when all I can think about is how upset I am because someone did something and blah blah blah. Or like in church, when we are taught time and again that He is all that we need. Yet many of us can testify that there was a time in our lives that we didn't trust that, only to find ourselves in a big mess that shouted, "Only God can fill this void!"
On the other side of the poll, however, would be learning in its truest of form. To take it on, remember it, use it when needed/where appropriate, even possibly expand one's understanding of it. Then I finally realized that what ultimately separates merely learning about something from actually learning is this...
Choice.
Have you let what you've learned merely increase your awareness? Or have you allowed it to change your life?
