Start learning now because you never did
When elders passionately narrate their life experiences hardly do they include their academic knowledge. Why is that so? Learning need not be academic all the time. It neither begins nor ends at school. Learning is eternal. A child is introduced to religion first and then the alphabet. In liberal Hinduism, religion hardly goes beyond worship and practices. Organised religions might work differently. One cannot afford to question everything in religion, as it mounts pressure on the mind. The human mind feels safe when it clings on to something. At school, you might have questioned the purpose of learning a subject. Though, you did not quit learning. All your classmates were learning the same subject, thereby motivating you to join the herd. Yet, every other student might have had the same question in mind. The question remained latent, and with it critical thinking. Any trait that is not encouraged would go incognito and eventually disappear once and for all. When my teacher wanted me t
