Experience And Learning Will Cost You. Contributed by @Olawalium

in #life6 years ago

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In life, we grow as we go. Nobody can confidently say he has attained the highest peak in life. For every great thing, there are still many more ahead. When we think we have understood what life is, life turns our understanding upside. In life, we gain experience as we go. No man is an island of knowledge. No one has the monopoly of knowledge, that is why we share experiences, to have varying choices or options as we go in life.

In life, we pay for what we don’t know. We are ignorant of some things, we get hurt by it, learn from it by gaining valuable experience. A guy who got his heart broken has gained a valuable experience about how certain ladies behave. A lady that got mistreated, has also gained something no one else might have taught her. A child who falls while trying to perform some stunts has gained something too. We all have limits. We know our limits based on what we have done prior to that moment. We know our limits based on experience, either shared or experienced by us.

I remembered when we were to move to our new house in 1997. We haven’t moved in but we had our dogs there. After school, I always went there to feed them. On this particular day, I forgot the key and I only realized it when I got to the place. The dogs saw me from the little openings and I felt guilty to turn back or leave them hanging, as they were already excited about their food.

I decided to do the unthinkable; jump over. As I got up, I touched a hub meant for the gate light (the light wasn't fixed yet), I just noticed my body was in vibration mode and I found myself on the floor hahaha. This kind of thing cannot be taught. I learned the hard way, even if I assumed I was told never to climb over a gate. Never tried it since then, even if no live wire is involved.


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We usually pay for what we don’t know in life, that is why most people go to school. If they could have acquired it by themselves at such a young age, they could have taught themselves. They recognized the fact that they can’t do this, and because of that, they have to pay in a certain way to learn; time, money, energy and the rest.

For those who do homeschooling, they still pay for it, one way or the other. The bottom line is, it has to cost you something and what it costs you is what you are trading for the experience. In Economics we call it alternative forgone. You have to let something go in order to acquire another thing. So, your opportunity cost is what you let go in order to gain what you acquired.

As we journey through life, we are gathering experiences in one way or the other. It has to cost you something and it doesn’t have to always be in monetary terms. Look deeper and notice all the experiences that you have gathered, those experiences actually cost you something. It might be in resources, it might be in emotions, it might be in energy, it might be in anything. To gain experience in life, it has to cost you something and the level at which it costs you is variable.

...to be continued...

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Experience is the best teacher, the more the exposure the more the experience.

It is only a fool that has no regard for education. Education has the power to transform you from whom you used to be to whom you purpose to be.

Money, time or resources spent on education is never a waist, because it has the power to make you better.

Often time, it is better to learn through trying something new. We normally call this process "trier and error". Because it will help you to learn things on your own. You will be able to know why certain works the way they do and why some others don't. Whatever you discovered on your own cannot be forgotten.

At the same time, never despise learning from other too, it place you ahead in life.

You can't live so long to have all the experiences. So, learning from others would help you to cover ground more than your age permits.

You don't know what you don't know because you have not learn them.

I'm not a doctor because I don't go to medical school.

That's the simple illustration, you become what you learn.

I decided to do the unthinkable; jump over. As I got up, I touched a hub meant for the gate light (the light wasn't fixed yet), I just noticed my body was in vibration mode and I found myself on the floor hahaha. This kind of thing cannot be taught. I learned the hard way, even if I assumed I was told never to climb over a gate. Never tried it since then, even if no live wire is involved.

Hahahahahahah, what a hard way to learn.

I could remember our last born learning not to play with fire through that method too... Smile

Thanks @olawalium and @communitycoin for this great lesson, you guys are awesome.

Absolutely. Whatever it is that we get to learn and experience in life, it will definitely cost us something. Thanks as always brother. Always detailed.

Thank you too, always inspiring.

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You are right, I notice there is nothing free in this life, to gain something, you must pay for it, it may be time, money or services. And you need it for an investment too, maybe you need it to use it for your own benefit, your family members or to earn money

Experiences and the learning we gather or gain in life, is either for our use, or for the use of others, or both and like you said, it doesn't come cheap. It has to cost us something and what it will cost us may differ. Thanks a lot

great post ... congrats!

let's make progress together,here on steemit,thanks for upvotes :-)

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You just said that we pay as much as we know. No one pays money out of it. And yes, what the dog said to you is that you give your dog a chance to feed the dog. In the present times people are more violent, hateful, and proud than human beings. One incident happened to my dogs. With I got out in the morning. There was no one next to me, or after some go, I saw a dog behind me. I was afraid to remember but looking at the dog, I felt like there is nothing to fear. She is standing behind me and she sticks in. To do this, I came back to my pillow, but I did not get to see him after seeing the window. I saw that the dog was standing in my house. Whenever I went out, my partner was a dog. After a month, I was stuck in a walk because I was not able to see the dog, and in a short time my relationship with the dog was developed.

We all certainly have a life experience right? As long as humans live, it will never be far away to create and feel an experience. And every life experience is always an important thing for us to learn.

There is an expression Life experience is the best teacher. This phrase can be interpreted as an event or event that occurred in the past that befell ourselves, then from events or events that we make as a lesson or warning to step journey next life.

In interpreting this phrase, it is clear that the pleasant and unpleasant events that do happen to ourselves are not the events or events that happen to others and only ourselves who feel and ourselves bear the consequences. Because everyone has their own experience.

That unpleasant incident or event will be our basis for taking the wisdom that we must be careful in acting and speaking, planning carefully before stepping away and reconsidering carefully. Without planning and consideration in determining the pace of life, then most likely we will fall into an unpleasant life and deterioration. When we feel our lives are happy and well, there must be lessons to take from there, we certainly know that what we have been doing is right, but still doing better so that our lives will be more developed.

Can we draw the conclusion that we learn to memaknai life by studying and taking the lessons of events or events that befall ourselves. If that befell is something pleasant, then it does not matter because it has been in accordance with what we expected before. But if what happens to us is something unpleasant and even painful, then it will always be embedded in our minds as long as we have not been able to release it.

Any good or bad experience, surely teach us one thing. We should be able to learn from there, so that our lives can be processed and upgraded to a higher level.

What can i say? Absolutely brilliant. Learning and our experiences as human will cost us something, definitely. Thanks a lot.

I disagree about limits. People haven't limits

To gain experience in life, it really has to cost you something.
It either costs you time, money, strength or any other thing.
You don't get anything for free.
And when you have a painful experience, you should know that you're paying the price for something greater.

Beautiful piece as always....

"Paying the price for something greater". That is really nice. Love that line. No pain, no gain. Thanks a lot cutie.

And when you have a painful experience, you should know that you're paying the price for something greater.

Until you learn to part with what you have, what you can have will not come...

If you tell a child to not touch a hot iron box, he might not touch it before you but he definitely will later. Whose mistake is it? Neither yours nor the child's. You out of experience asked the child not to touch it, however the child out of curiosity touched it.

Experiences are required to choose between the right and the wrong, to take wise decisions when there are a number of people trusting you and experiences are needed so that you make less mistakes later and become trustworthy and a true leader in every sense. These experiences are gained by being curious and the willingness to make mistakes and learn from them. Every thing that goes wrong in life is not to be cursed, rather being calm it must be considered as an experience. These little experiences stack up in making you the best version of yours and deliver the best wherever you go and wherever you be

Absolutely. This is good. It always get better.

Everything we learn either out of curiosity or gained by experience must have cost us something. Nothing comes cheap.

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