SHAKESPEARE BECAME SHAKESPEARE THROUGH GIANTS OF HIS TIME

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 experience gathered over many years.

By being prideful, they also break a lot of mental, physical or emotional bonds 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.

Minds

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.

Opportunities

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 in the things you know, which he doesn’t know. 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.

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