What could be fun in studying new things and in going to school? A friend of mine once posted in his shout out that age is inevitable and that as we go old we gain knowledge. Therefore, we learn so many things here on earth as we grow old. Looking age at a good perspective for it is in knowledge we find contentment and happiness (love you Paul for this, my friend).
But some would say, "Enough about going to school". Many would surely like to have fun only and leave knowledge aside. Well, when I was still an undergraduate student I gained wisdom and had fun both at the same time. Even up to this very moment, I still love acquiring knowledge (hence I enrolled back to school) and still have some fun (I still drink and hang out with my friends) at the same time. I clearly remember moments with my friends everytime we drink. When people will get tipsy a little an argument is always brought up. Arguments about the things we have been acquiring from school; it may be about science, arts, etc. What's interesting is, everyone contributes about the topic that we are arguing about. As we savor more and more liquor, the more we talk and talk about the topic as deeper as we can get. We even find it good to study together while drinking but before doing that we should have finished reading about it before coming to the session for the arguments.
I love the author Apuleius (a North-African) for what he wrote about knowledge and drinking: "There is a famed saying of a wise man about the pleasures of the table: 'The first wine-bowl quenches thirst, the second begets jollity, the third stirs up desire, the fourth sends mad.' But the bowls of the Muses have an opposite effect. The more you drink and the stronger the drought, the better is it for the good of your soul. The first bowl, given you by the elementary teacher, rescues you from ignorance; the second, proffered by the teacher of literature, sets you up with learning; third, brought by the rhetorician, arms you with eloquence." He himself was hungry for more and more knowlege. Yes, we got wasted everytime we drink but the knowledge we learned will never be taken from us. What we are doing is just another way of having fun while learning. It eases us to speak of the things inside our minds and loosens up everything.
As Apuleius further said, "These three draughts are enough for most men (bowl of Muses). But I have drunk other cups at Athens: the Imaginative draught of poetry, the clear one of geometry, the sweet one of music, the austere one of dialectic, and the nectar of universal philosophy, of which one can never have enough." This brought me back to what Paul posted, we can never have enough about knowledge and our brains will never get filled with things; but it is through knowledge that we will understand and will make us care and love.
Not all of us in this world is given a chance and have the priviledge to acquire knowledge we learn from school. For those who have, we should share and pass it on. The contentment of being a good student is to be a good teacher someday. We learn and understand and therefore we can teach things to anyone.
