the never ending journey part 1

I have come to the conclusion recently that life is a never ending journey or a journey of journeys. I am sure that fully does not make sense to whoever is reading this but this is what is currently inside my head so here I shall try to explain.


We set out on a journey in our lives, eg the beginning of our education but this does not begin with primary school, oh no it begins long before we even turn five when our parents, family and friends watch us grow, challenge us, teach us and stand in awe and gasp as the amazing things we are beginning to accomplish in our lives - particularly remarkable things at such a young age. 


Once we are five (in NZ, possibly older or younger in other countries), we start attending primary school - from this moment on, most of us tend to spend the next 13 years of our lives involved in education (in terms of Primary School, Intermediate and then High School/Secondary/College) and we learn so much that we feel our brains are about to explode. 


Once we come to the end of our imediate schooling years, it seems like the end of an era - the people we have got to know over the past 13 years are suddenly splitting up and all going their own individual ways (starting their own new journeys).  


At the end of these years, some of us think that we have had enough of education and go off to do something else where we no longer think we have to learn, while other people go off to university, polytech or college to pursue further educational ambitions. No matter what we do once we all leave high school, no matter how different our new paths are from our friends, we are all still continuing on the educational path of life - there is always something to learn and as I have been reminded so much since I have left high school, learning (just like life), is a never ending journey. Wherever we are in the world, whatever we are doing, whoever we are working with, no matter what our circumstance, there will always be something new for us to learn - it really is a never ending journey... it would certainly be much easier though if some people acknowledged the fact that they still need to learn things from others sometimes, rather than always thinking they know everything and that they should be the teachers. 


This is part one, part two is still in my brain and will come through onto the pages any moment now....