We all know that certain learning styles work best for some but may not be so for others. That’s how the adage ‘one man’s meat is another man’s poison’ comes into being.
For some reasons, I learn best when there is ‘pain’ in my lessons. In other words, I learn best after a bad fall. Somehow the learning lessons stay very much longer. Don’t ask me why but that’s the way I’m wired.
There’s one another guy who also has a ‘strange’ way of learning. He is a jogging friend called Naim.
Already an accomplished person in his own right, it is hard to understand why he collects used cans and packets from the streets and sells them off for a few ringgits. So, I asked him why.
His reason for collecting and selling ‘trash’ from the streets teaches him about humility. To him, bending over to collect them requires humility and courage as he has to drop his pride and ego in order to do so. And the more he does it, the greater is the internalization of humility. No wonder he does this act all the time and then sells his collection to the ‘newspaper man’ with the proceeds going to charity.
He sees doing this as a way to live a purposeful living that fits well with his belief system of ‘we have nothing when we return to our Creator’. For him, this is a good ‘preparation’ before ‘checking out ‘of this planet.
I am blessed to meet a noble person like Naim who offers me useful learning lessons of life. And the good thing is that I buy into these learning lessons quickly because they are so creative as is demonstrated by my friend, Naim.
Who is teaching you an important lesson on life in their own special way?
