“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. The beauty of the world, the Parragon of Animals.”
How many of us recognise ourselves in this description of man by William Shakespeare’s Hamlet? Undoubtedly, man, more than any other creature, has the potential to live up to this lofty ideal, yet unlike any other creature, man is at war with himself.
According to my sources, a change is as good as a rest. So it’s a shame that it isn’t something that most of us are good at. It’s incredibly easy to get stuck in our ways and in doing so, to miss the possibilities around us to grow and develop.
Conversely, some of us are very good at change, or at least appear to be. Always open to new things, always searching. This often mean that they’re too distracted to ever stay the course with one thing, but that’s a small price to pay for a
Sometimes it’s a wonder we get anything done at all. In the 21st century our lives are more complex, more busy, and more fragmented than ever before. Unlike our ancestors for whom work, family and social lives were integrated and indeed took place in one place, we now have to lead these lives separately, juggling our ambitions, focus and time between elements of our increasingly splintered lives.
This is true even if we are content to simply tick along with each element of our lives,
Much has been written about the legacy George W. Bush has left for the world, and yet perhaps the most tragic aspect of his 8 year tenure, is the generations of children who will, quite justifiably, be able to say that it is possible to become ‘the most powerful man in the free world” while having apparently completely bypassed the education system.
The word educate comes from the latin “educare” meaning to nourish or draw out, and indeed, education should go a step further by making
Maturity is a strange thing. It’s something that one hopes to acquire with age and yet we can’t do anything to ensure that we do. Maturity isn’t something that you can learn, rather it’s something that reveals itself in you as you develop.
We can see this in all walks of life. In the same way that one doesn’t become an great painter or musician, martial artist or dancer overnight, neither is the process of maturation a quick one. Furthermore, though you can train and practice diligently,
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