I’m constantly learning about both the world and myself. I guess that’s not unusual. What is perhaps a little unusual is that I try to use the knowledge I’ve gained to help me grow as a person. (No, I didn’t mean that to sound quite as pretentious as it did...)
Anyways, I feel I learnt two main things this year:
The first, I learned over the summer (which I spent, among other things, travelling around a lot of England, working at various events, and having very little sleep). It was this: I can do a lot more than I think I can (or, that is to say, than I thought I could – past tense).
I always thought I was rather useless – that I couldn’t do much but, with a little discipline, I’ve discovered that I can be rather useful indeed.
The second thing I learnt is: The value of Discipline, especially self-discipline.
Up until now I’ve been fairly undisciplined in my life but, as I mentioned in a previous post, I have been striving to change this and I think progress has been made.
I define discipline as what I’ve been doing the last few months: Doing what’s right even though I don’t want to. And not being lazy.
(Also, in the last week or so, I learnt what the Oxford comma is and also that my family – particularly my parents – are completely incapable of playing charades/staying silent. Their attempts were indeed fairly hilarious as I’m sure you can imagine.)
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