- By Sanjay V Shah
Benjamin Franklin once said that an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. But people often forget to follow this mantra and become stale, mediocre and usual. The only way to improve life is to improve knowledge.
Look around and you will see what miracles knowledge does to everything, from human to hamburger maker. A brand continues to grow strength to strength when its company continues investing in its growth through research and development. A local trader becomes global player when instead of feeling content with what he has, he constantly strives to make world his market. Progress happens with knowledge and so, why to feel that we know all that is required to run life smoothly? We don’t know what will help next moment. Many things around us are aliens to us even when we see them with eyes. We don’t had any idea that a something like Tsunami can happen. With very little knowledge at disburse; we should actually feel like a child to gather more and more understanding of life!
Think of a fort which you are visiting as a tourist. Your guide is telling you great stories about it and with his each word, you are feeling enriched. That’s the way one needs to take things. Learn what you have not learnt, ask what you want to know, inquire which will help you. The more you will try to know, the better you will feel while going to bed in the night.
And never think that at this age, what is the use of learning new things? As such, one learns things which are forced upon him. See how everyone learnt how to use a mobile phone, watch television using remote control, validating railway ticket with coupons and smart card and waling on sky-walks instead of on bustling streets. Life has its way of forcing knowledge on all but it loves those who learn spontaneously and wholeheartedly. The change from, “I will have to know” to “I want to know’ can have magical effect on your mind and persona both. That is the reason, never shy away from learning, knowing and improving. It will pay rich dividends for sure!
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Sanjay V Shah (Journalist, playwright, film, TV serial writer, film critic, poet)
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