A NOMAD'S RETURN: BASTARDIZING ASIMOV
Read a nice poem in Zen Pencils' book 'Volume Two: Dream The Impossible Dream'.
Made me kinda miss writing and posting on a blog.
Felt like sharing, so here it is, Isaac Asimov's poem/inspirational quote, 'A Lifetime Of Learning'.
They did the cutest comic illustration to go with it, too.
It depicts this lady in her early life, going to school, and graduating from university.
The next part of the story shows her going back to community college to pursue her passion in art, specifically landscape painting. It shows her using the internet to continue learning to paint, and she even picks up french.
it then jumps to her old age.
she travels to japan, learning phrases of the language on the plane.
she walks past the neon lights of tokyo, learns to make bonzai trees, and bathes in the hot springs.
before she leaves, she sits across the lake from mount fuji, and paints a picture.
the next frame shows her returning home, decked out in a souvenir top, bonzai tree in-hand.
she walks to the living room and puts up her painting up on the wall, with all the other paintings of all the other places she visited in her life.
I liked that. It showed how a lifetime of learning is a lifetime well spent, and that it's never too late to learn something new, be it a skill, a lesson, or even a way of life.
I might go ahead and post a few more of these. It's almost like revisiting that blogger life.
Every so often I think about going back to blogging, but I know it's not the same.
I feel restless, but what is the source of my restlessness?
That's what i'm hoping to find out
“People think of education as something that they can finish.
Made me kinda miss writing and posting on a blog.
Felt like sharing, so here it is, Isaac Asimov's poem/inspirational quote, 'A Lifetime Of Learning'.
They did the cutest comic illustration to go with it, too.
It depicts this lady in her early life, going to school, and graduating from university.
The next part of the story shows her going back to community college to pursue her passion in art, specifically landscape painting. It shows her using the internet to continue learning to paint, and she even picks up french.
it then jumps to her old age.
she travels to japan, learning phrases of the language on the plane.
she walks past the neon lights of tokyo, learns to make bonzai trees, and bathes in the hot springs.
before she leaves, she sits across the lake from mount fuji, and paints a picture.
the next frame shows her returning home, decked out in a souvenir top, bonzai tree in-hand.
she walks to the living room and puts up her painting up on the wall, with all the other paintings of all the other places she visited in her life.
I liked that. It showed how a lifetime of learning is a lifetime well spent, and that it's never too late to learn something new, be it a skill, a lesson, or even a way of life.
I might go ahead and post a few more of these. It's almost like revisiting that blogger life.
Every so often I think about going back to blogging, but I know it's not the same.
I feel restless, but what is the source of my restlessness?
That's what i'm hoping to find out
“People think of education as something that they can finish.
And what’s more, when they finish, it’s a rite of passage.
You’re finished with school.
You’re no more a child, and therefore anything that reminds you of school- reading books, having ideas, asking questions- that’s kid’s stuff.
You’re finished with school.
You’re no more a child, and therefore anything that reminds you of school- reading books, having ideas, asking questions- that’s kid’s stuff.
Now you’re an adult, you don’t do that sort of thing any more.
You have everybody looking forward to no longer learning, and you make them ashamed afterward of going back to learning.
If you have a system of education using computers, then anyone, any age, can learn by himself, can continue to be interested.
You have everybody looking forward to no longer learning, and you make them ashamed afterward of going back to learning.
If you have a system of education using computers, then anyone, any age, can learn by himself, can continue to be interested.
If you enjoy learning, there’s no reason why you should stop at a given age.
People don’t stop doing things they enjoy doing just because they reach a certain age.
What’s exciting is the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there’s now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand.
It seems to me that when it’s time to die, there would be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it.
There’s only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp it.
What a tragedy to just pass through and get nothing out of it.”
- Isaac Asimov
People don’t stop doing things they enjoy doing just because they reach a certain age.
What’s exciting is the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there’s now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand.
It seems to me that when it’s time to die, there would be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it.
There’s only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp it.
What a tragedy to just pass through and get nothing out of it.”
- Isaac Asimov
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