I half-watched a cheesy baseball movie on TV the other night and there was one line in it that kind of stuck in my memory: "We all have two lives; one for learning and the other for living with what we've learned". If you agree with the implications of this statement, where are you at right now? Are you in the middle of the first life or at the end of it? Maybe you're halfway through the second one?

And before you go all "life is one long learning experience" on me, try to think about it some more. I do believe there is at least a point when we start reaping what we've sown to a greater extent than we're planting new seeds.

Personally I think I'll be ready to move into my second life in a couple of years.

Living with what I learned.


I'm wrestless. I never stop learning. I never stop trying figure things out or get "there". The sad truth is, I never really fully understand what "there" is.

I need to learn more. This can't possibly be all there is. There must be more to it than this.

Going along with the "2 lives" scenario.....

Up until pretty recently I THOUGHT I was on my "second", but now I think this is my first, and I'm about to make the huge step into my second. I think my life is in a huge state of transition rite now.

retina said:

I think (IMO only) that it IS indeed a continous learning curve but I do also think there are points in our lives that the lessons we learn consiously "kick in"

I'd really appreciate to be in the second part. Enough with the life lessons, according to me, but isn't it what LIFE is all about?