I read the Tao of Pooh, and found it to be fantastic. It turns out, those Taoists had the right idea all along. Things are the way they are. Don't meddle, just be.
This reading further encourages my determination to just let things happen. The more you interrupt the natural flow, the more complicated and troubled it becomes. Accept things for what they are. Be grateful. Don't waste time trying to save time, just use it, or else you'll find you've wasted it all attempting to save it. (Ironic, no?)
I found I was often learning just for the sake of learning, to appear smart to others, and not for the benefit that the knowledge would give me, or to give that knowledge to others. I have all this opportunity to learn plenty, and I'm wasting it, retaining it to pass the next test or to rattle it off for a teacher. Granted, some of it, I really don't feel I'll need later in my life, but for the most part, I've been tossing it to the back of my mind (or out of it) without a second thought.
Reiterating, I've stopped meddling. I'm done bottling things up for the sake of prevention. It was ridiculous, and keeping me from being as happy as I could have been. I found that the more I kept to myself, the more I would cry or be angry. Without having to worry about it, the world seems much brighter, much clearer.
Thank you, Pooh. I never could have realized this without you.
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