Saturday, September 20, 2008
its been awhile since i've blogged... haha i haven't actually had internet at home... and gosh. its made me realize how much we rely on technology. you won't believe how many times i wanted to wiki things...but had no internet... haha anyway...
its funny how in my family's bid to get faster internet, we wound up with no internet.
its actually true what they say... that generation Y is oriented towards instant gratification. we feel compelled to upgrade our technology so that we can save milliseconds. we get jobs... (at least part time) not to save for our future security, but to spend it immediately... on things we honestly don't need. kinda scary huh?
because deep down... we all know that what feels good for us now... is not always whats best for us in the future. yet... it seems easy to ignore that niggling feeling.
when i was in kindergarten, i think i ate so many lollies that i lost all my baby teeth by the time i was like in grade one. hahaha... and really... when we're young... all we are concerned with is instant gratification, the concept of waiting, or even discipline is beyond us. all the talk of diabetes and teeth falling out seemed soooo trivial. haha something to worry about later, after i enjoy this chocolate bar now. i remember hearing about a science experiment where a child was told... i'll give you a lolly now, but if you can hold onto it for 10 minutes, you can have two lollies. the adult then placed the lolly into the child's hands and left the room. in almost every instance, the child was not capable of waiting, completly lacked the discipline to control themselves.
discipline is a discipline in itself. hahaha duh. its not something that we have as kids... (well i certainly didn't!) so we work on it. and often we find ourselves asking why? why do i need to work on it? well... perhaps at times, its because what feels good now, isn't going to help us in the future. perhaps discipline will help us to achieve certain goals. but for me? right now? discipline is required for me to learn.
did you know that the word discipline has the latin origin of
disciplina "instruction" and the root
discere "to learn", it refers to the systematic instruction given to disciples. (ohhh yeahhhhhh.... its good to have wiki back! hahaha) discipline is required for me to be learn more of what it means to be a disciple of Christ. discipline is what is required of me to be more like Him.
a student is not above his Teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his Teacher.-Luke 6:40do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? run in such a way as to get the prize. everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. they do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; i do not fight like a man beating the air.
-1 Corinthians 9:24-26
Labels: learning, observations, ramblings
Updated@1:35 AM
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