Yesterday, I was on my bed resting from 3 long weeks of hard work and absence of rest. A thought came to my mind about how much time I wasted in my life to find the things I love and work on improving those skills, I thought also about how much obstacles I faced through finding it, not materialistic obstacles but mental ones.
As I looked around my thoughts were blocked by so many constrains that came from non-responsible people having no trusteeship at all. Also if they have any; they missed lots of skills in doing what they were doing.
Although all of that , I cannot blame them but instead am thankful and grateful for all the obstacles they have put through my life, those obstacles that sharpened many skills of mine that I wouldn’t have able to sharpen them anywhere else in this age.
For example, in the preparatory stages I didn’t go any training camp, scholarship or even a session without a long hard days of discussion with my dad, I cried for days to attend one session, as he was not convinced that those organizations will give me skills but instead they will control my mind and make me an infidel !
Those tears and long days of thinking made me arrive to the best ways in dealing with hard people and convincing them with things they were definitely offending it . In many times I lost my control but by training I learned to be a good listener and listen to a completely non-sense speech , just for the sake of making my opponent listen to what I have at the end.
About the infidelity thing, that fear he was putting in me was my one and only courage to explore dozens of ideologies and religions, it made me aware of many of the points of weakness in the most common ideological systems in the world, it taught me that it’s possible to do a mistake, and it’s also okay, as long as one admit his mistakes, it taught me also that it’s good to do a mistake, Because mistakes earlier are cheaper. it constructed a shield around my mind that protects it from following a thought or an idea that would lead me to either a waste of time, or a drift away from my own purposes of life, or against the rules of morals and ethics that I apply.
However, what I arrived after long time of thinking; is that if one day I was gifted with a child, I would raise him free, Free with every meaning of freedom, I would teach him how to choose , I would teach him that everything is possible, I would keep his mind liberated from any constrain. And of course I will not apply for him in any school. And I mean it, any school at all!
I will keep that young artist inside of him, and I will teach him how to be friends with him and get to know him better.
But wait a minute. Is this true? I mean would he gain the same experience if he was put in difficult situations where he arrives that he needs to seek his own way with himself?
Is it better to keep him away from schools and educate the best way education could be delivered? Or it is to put him in school and make him arrive himself that what he is doing is a waste of time.
In a theoretical form questionnaire, we could ask:-
“Which is better? To put one inside a flawed environment and make him arrives to the flaws of this system? Or to create this system for him and make him involved in it directly?”
This question has always puzzled my mind for years. I look forward to know your opinions!
Thank you for your time.
