This is a curious weekend for me because from the moment I saw the announcement post for the #weekend-engagement topics for this weekend.
For me, I love learning. I am still learning and will keep learning. Learning itself is life. And man keeps learning from conception to death.
Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, skills, behaviours, values, attitudes and preferences.
Wikipedia
Since no one is an island of knowledge, learning becomes imperative. My choice of talking about learning today is coined from the weekend topics posted.
Option two: Learning
Tell us about a time you learned a very valuable lesson. What it was, the circumstances around it, how did the learning go and what was the result?
A Valuable Lesson I Learned
When I was much younger, my parents would take us to the farm, mostly during the weekends. Those periods were beautiful but stressful. Ideally, at that young age, I dreaded the sight of snakes. As time went on, I decided to look for a means to escape going to the farm.
I came up with an idea that I would be attending Saturday lessons in school. My parents allowed me to have my way but voluntarily I would follow them to the farm.
My fears for different things started first as a pretence then graduated to something I could not handle much later. All that culminated in my woes when I could not go out in the dark alone, swim in a pool, or walk a bush path.
Pretence can cause you a lot of pain. It did cause me some, so, you should all desist from it.
The Circumstance
Laziness can steal your opportunities to learn. It was in this circumstance that I found myself running for no reason to school. Pretence brings laziness. I never intended to be lazy, I just wanted to stay away from doing the farm thing, but that attitude culminated into laziness.
The Re-Learning and The Result
Much later, my services were needed in one commercial farm, where I was to teach a group of interns on bow to produce charcoal. It was supposed to be my first big hit but I failed in the practice because my knowledge which I felt was fine later charcoal production was never enough.
Then, I remembered that I had always wanted to stay away from the farm because of pretence and laziness. I had thought I wouldn't venture into any career in farming. But I was wrong.
After my session with the interns, I had to go back to my father to learn the rudiments of charcoal production using different species of wood and the different strategies that soothed each wood.
Now, I know that I have gathered enough knowledge and am ready to show my prowess in charcoal production.
The second batch of the interns came and I did a very good job with them. That year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development gave out stipends to charcoal farmers to begin their charcoal businesses.
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