Learning and Unlearning: An Individual Philosophy of Truth
Sometimes, the best things in life are not the ones we wished for or expected but rather the unexpected and the unannounced events that come to alter and change the course we are taking.
Life is a continuous series of meditations aimed at improving the self, aimed at leading us to evolve. To be true to oneself is to accept what is and what is not as being part of something far better and greater than what we think. Everything in the world around us and the universe at large is always in a constant state of change and motion, nothing is ever static at any point and that is how the universe as we have come to know it has managed to be in existence for eons.
The evolution of the individual and that of the society happens through change and motion, this motion is and can be interpreted in the notion of learning and unlearning. I believe that learning and unlearning are prerequisites for human evolution, we are constantly being tested against what we think we know and what we truly know, both about ourselves and the world around us.
There was once a man, who spent most of his years toiling under the sun, There is no labor that this man did not know off… He had gone through it all has seen all and has heard it all….What more could you tell a man whose eyes have seen and whose hears have heard.
There was once a man who knew it all and yet knew nothing..He had it all and yet he had nothing…I have come to learn that we are walking, living, breathing contradictions of ourselves.
For the more, we know or think we know, based on the realities of life that we have learned, the more we realize that there is more to life than the toils that we go through.
To evolve in this world we need to learn to unlearn, it is a pre-requisite for development both personal or social development.
Since we are ever so trapped in the notion of improvement and progress we might as well turn the struggles of our lives towards that of wanting to fully experience our existence.
However, unlearning does not mean forsaking what we know. We are somehow trapped in thinking that unlearning is a process of fully forsaking what we know. I would like to think that unlearning is allowing ourselves to the possibilities of the more there is to know and learning.
However, we need to confront ourselves with the truth of what is, so that we may be able to unlearn. This applies to our personal lives and the way we interact with the world around us and with even ourselves. We are constantly approaching things with an already preconceived idea of what is.
To learn and to unlearn means to be aware of what we can and cannot control, in retrospect we do not have much control over anything except for our free will and ability to choose. So, we should choose new experiences and new knowledge forms that test who we are and what we know. We should choose to learn new things about the world and about ourselves but to also unlearn that which was detrimental.
Regardless, the power is in your hands, dear reader, I would like to believe that amidst all this, there is no Thought Police that dictates what we should and should not learn or unlearn. If this happens then are we even people anymore?
Oh, the Thought Police!!
Beware of the Thought Police, which tries to dictate the narratives around what is right and what is wrong to think, the mind is the one true entity that we have in our control the only thing that truly makes us who we are. Those that try to force this process of unlearning and learning, beware of those on the moral pedestal, who dictate what is the right way of thinking.
To live in truth, as your most authentic self is to realize and be conscious of what is and what is not. Otherwise, you are merely floating through existence. We are just breathing entities dictated by the winds of social movements.
