My grandmother died a few years ago, and she left me with a piece of advice that never rang so true until I married the Coast Guard (they threw in a great guy too!). She said that just about everything can be taken from you except your education. You can loose house, you can loose your car, you can loose someone your love, but you can not loose knowledge you have attained. I stopped like a deer in headlights...partly because I was not completly sure if I was supposed to be the recipient of that comment, and partly because it was coming from her - the same 92 year old granny that had been nick-named "the crotch snatcher" after the new hobby she acquired in her senile years. And yet it makes so much sense to me.
Education, formal or not, allows us to pick up the pieces and adapt to knew environments. It involves a willingness to constantly learn and grow. It is, I find, an important trait for us (Coast Guard and other military like families) to have in order to survive.
What are your thoughts?
02 October, 2011
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