One afternoon a lawyer dropped by at the office to claim his subsidy entitlement. I've noticed him before while attending a meeting with one of my senior colleague. I can't forget his face even it took years to see him again. He frequented almost always to the office where I worked before.
Dressed in a polo barong. An attache case on his hand. I usually see lawyers with these accessory. He still looked the way Ive seen him some years ago. No marks of aging on his part.
I greeted him politely and handed what he was after of. I had the time to introduce myself and got the whereabouts of his son who was a batch mate in college.
"He's working in a bank right now." he said. How long have you been here? Are you now in a law school? Have you taken a master's degree? This questions came out from his mouth unexpectedly.
"You shouldn't stop learning." he added.
"I have plans for it." I answered.
He's right. We should not stop learning. It's a continuous process. Our daily interaction with our friends, peers and everyone around , uncovers a lot of things that we don't know. Surfing the net, reading the local dailies offer opportunities to discover more. For instance, I bumped across an article which tackles on diabetes. It says that persons with diabetes heals more rapidly than those who are not when inflicted with wounds. This is contrary to what I know that these people have hard time recuperating.
When you cease to learn, it is tantamount to incarcerating yourself behind bars. You'll become stagnant. You could not enjoy the beauty of the world which really is what everybody wanted and continually longed for.
My father ever since the wave of cellular phones hit this generation, he is not interested to learn the gadget. It's cumbersome for him to study the tedious process at his age. He's dwindling eyesight is another factor. My mother however, is the exact opposite. Even though she retired from public service years ago, she's still active nourishing her knowledge. She has still the heart to teach the children of our neighbors who visited our house for her assistance. A teacher by profession.
Indeed, it is just right to thirst for wisdom otherwise, you cease to see the beauty of God's creation.
You mentioned that the Lawyer did not have marks of aging. It is because continuous learning is REJUVENATING. Chronologically I am the most senior net user in town but I still feel as young as those around me at the netcafe. I have a computer at home but I always go to the netcafe because from there I learn much from the youth as they also are inspired by my wisdom... a kind of intellectual symbiosis.
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