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David Robinson With another word of faith.
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The Learning curve Part 1
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Life's an ongoing learning curve, isn't it? We no sooner have mastered one problem in life than another one pops up in its place. I left school or should I say it was suggested that I leave school when I was thirteen, by a tired principal who considered that my meagre offering of two days a week was not enough. I remember almost leaping for joy that early morning. Free at last I thought, no more knocks by teachers, no more abuses by peers, and no more lessons. However, believe me, I soon learned that the classroom was a much easier place to learn than the school of hard knocks, which was the world that I hastened myself into. Within days I was up to my armpits and cattlemanure, and sweat working ten to twelve hours a day for one pound fifty a week. It was madness, but I loved it. I got driving a tractor along country roads, sitting high on a well upholstered cushion and wearing a hat, so I looked older. I made hay while the sun shone on one of the muck when it didn't. I spread orchards maskless while birds dropped dead at my feet. I was the king in my own castle and was free. But believe me, life had some surprises in store for this one time dropout. Having been brought up by an abandoned mother, I soon learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for grief. I learned that I could choose to dwell on the fact that I was a half orphan, or thank God for a mother who more than made up for some sense of loss. It was a great time of struggling for all of us as a family way back in days when divorce was frowned on and money was short. However, I learned that background and circumstances might influence who we are, but we are responsible for who we become. Today everybody else seems to blame everyone else for their problems. The thief, the drug addict, the alcoholic all point to bad parents and poverty as the reason for their state, but in reality it was wrong choices that brought them into the quagmire that is killing them day by day. Society's ills are not the fault of previous generations, rather the wrong response of individuals to life's learning curve. We don't have to allow circumstances to mould us. We just need to break the mould and pour ourselves into something bigger and better than we are. I've had the pleasure to see drug addicts and alcoholics do just that. Break the mold, walk away from themselves and pour their lives into helping others do the same. If you're caught up in the lie that you are what life makes you, get a new life. Just because today you're ploughing mud doesn't mean that tomorrow you can't eat apples from the same field called life. There used to be a TV program called This Is Your Life, a program which told the history of famous stars and famous people. Their lives were played out on the small screen by friends who knew them intimately. They all had one thing in common. They didn't start out rich and famous. Their names weren't in bright lights when they were born, but they impacted their generation for good. Your status as a baby doesn't dictate your future. You do. Your destiny doesn't depend on your beginning, rather on your attitude and your will. To those who like me were brought up without a father or a mother, please allow me to say that experience can either cripple or make you.
