Times Of Swaziland: EVERYONE IS A CHILD ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

EVERYONE IS A CHILD ONE WAY OR ANOTHER
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editor on 27/06/2022 07:35:00


Sir,
Children who are proud at the early stage of their lives usually miss out on the
wisdom of their parents or other adults who have a worth of experience gathered
over many years. By being prideful, they also break a lot of mental or physical
or emotional bones in their lives which they would not break had they been
teachable; and they have to learn on their own in a rather painful way.
It has been said that the clever ones learn from their own experiences, the wise
ones learn from the experiences of others. Everyone is a child in one way or
another. Won’t you agree that an emotional person who ruins his poise of
character by explosive temper is certainly a child – an emotional babe? R
Kelly seems to be one of these emotional children who could have been helped,
had he allowed his associates to help him.
Come
All you have had, all you have, all you will ever have will come to you through
the agency of other people. Shakespeare became Shakespeare through other giants
of his time. He was incubated by great English minds such as Lord Francis Bacon,
an English Philosopher. Life demands that you and I learn from both young and
old. My personal philosophy is that I embrace truth from whatsoever source
because life is a vast storehouse full of tutorials in diverse ways. It has been
said that when a pupil is ready the teacher will be there. In all dimensions of
life there are teachers who are ready to teach the one who is humble and ready
to learn.  Experience, other human beings, animals and vegetation have valuable
lessons for us.
Humility
Humility makes us realise opportunities in the very place we have always known
and thought barren. Some of the most inspiring acts, events, discoveries and
developments on this earth have come from despised people who were humble enough
to let life use them. The greatest act of the universe (the atonement of Jesus
Christ) required a man with the highest form of humility. “…I do nothing of
myself; but as my father has taught me…,” (John 8:28) confessed Jesus.
Gethsemane and Golgotha – universal salvation matters – required such depth
of humility from Christ. Those who pretend to be self-sufficient lie to
themselves. Pretending that they don’t learn from anyone else, you see them
browsing the internet, paging books seeking knowledge.
All these are works of other people. And to truly learn from them requires one
to be teachable. He who is not teachable progresses slowly in the ocean of life.
The unteachable are usually bad in human relations, a key to true living. Even
your boss is a child to you on the things you know, which he doesn’t know.
Humble
He has to humble himself in order for him to learn from you. The wise boss knows
very well that he does not know everything, and that to fare well in this world
you’ve got to stay humble to keep on learning. He doesn’t mind who gets the
credit, but minds the success of the organisation. Even a wise minister of
religion would celebrate one of his congregants for what he has learned from him
in religious matters. This is all abundance mentality as opposed to scarcity
mentality. For water does not flow up stream; neither does milk. You’ve got to
stay humble to keep on learning.