Never stop learning or questioning

I want to always be in some type of learning environment, either in a career where there are things to learn and become educated about, self-learning on my own, or in a class or group of some sort.

I’ll never stop learning or questioning and i’ll cross this off my list on my death bed :)

My goal used to be ‘never stop learning’. When I saw this goal I knew I had to change the previous goal.

I just think it is so easy to accept new advances in technology, politics and the world, even to learn in depth about them but never to question what goes on in the world around you.

I realise that this is a life quest.. I will never be able to tick that I have ‘done’ this.. until the day I die.

A very wise man (my Grandfather) told me that even though he left school at age 14 in the late 1920’s, he never stopped learning. He told me that even though he had been to school and graduated with top honours, he was still learning about life, the world and everything in it.

I can’t imagine that. I try to learn something often – won’t go as far as saying daily.

In addition, I do question things as well. I find people who don’t question things and just go about their lives boring.

I like people who have opinions. People who don’t aren’t very interesting. I don’t have to agree with people in order to get along with them, either.

I changed my goal from “never stop learning” to this one, because I think it is important to question things. “Why?” “How?” “When?” “Where?” are all important questions (especially “Why?”). I think too many people just go through the motions without fully understanding what’s going on around them, and they are too apathetic to find out. I don’t want to be that way.
The internet is an awesome tool for this…you can ask a search engine any question and find so much information. I love it.

I hope that even when I am old and grey I will still have this thirst for knowledge. I know that my job will be a great help in sustaining this wish as I want to become a journalist. To stop questioning things would make life so dull! I spend all of my time questioning life, how things began, who created stairs/forks, how they made tin openers and why the world is slightly tilted. I couldn’t stop even if i wanted to. :) And that is a really great thought.