Story of Life

Our lives takes twists and turns throughout its journey, and each turn brings to us a new experience, a new hope, sometimes joys but sometimes sorrows too. We all live our stories of life.

Each one of us are connected with our life stories in some way or the other. We usually keep protecting ourselves behind our stories too. Our life stories are unique because we are unique as individuals too. These stories can be imaginary or real. Imaginary stories are our own self perceptions, but the real life stories are comprised of our life experiences we pass through during life. 

The most unique part about these life stories are that we love to share them with others. However, we determine with whom we are going to share our story. Human beings are connected with each other through these stories too. Whenever we share our story with another person he or she also has a life story too. Fortunately, once we discuss our life story the other person also erupts and tell us about their unique life story. This way two different individuals get connected and if they have a common story they become friends, lovers, mentors, or our counselors. 

These life stories are extremely powerful tools to help us understand life, learn lessons, empowers us to develop hope, builds our confidence, create a vision, determine our future goals, and help us plan to be better human beings eventually.

Actually, our life story is the reflection of all those moments which we have lived, irrespective whether good or bad. The happy moments are our privileges, and blessings. On the contrary, our sad moments were the ones which made us strong and empowered us to move on in life.

Story of life does hold in itself our true self. They make us shine among our fellow human beings provided we transform our life stories into a learning opportunity, a stepping stone to move forward, a confident move to create our vision, an intimate moment to share and bring new souls closer. 

We all must build our positive life stories no matter what our life brings to us in each passing moment. Develop ourselves as better individuals to improve and inspire others to let them stand on their feet after every fall. Eventually, we all have a huge treasure of beautiful and successful life stories in our account of life that we love to share, explore, and pave a road to success for our own life journey. 

Dare to share your story of your life! 

Not Everything is Contained in Books

As it is rightly expressed by Mahatma Gandhi that, “Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.” Gaining knowledge is a natural human desire. Books and life experiences are both primary sources of acquiring knowledge; hence, both have their own value in life. Having said that, I believe learning from experience is far more valuable, productive and practical for a successful life.

Firstly, books are considered a major source of gaining knowledge at early age particularly in schools. Knowledge from books is quite enough to grasp language, and build concepts to build a foundation for learning at later age. For example, learning of alphabets, creating words from those alphabets, later on it paves way for construction of complete sentences. However, books do not provide us any knowledge about social skills, and their challenges in practical life which primarily depends upon our language use. Therefore, experiences teach us with time and practice to learn and develop social skills in life.

Furthermore, moving on by saying that, “Experience is a teacher by itself”. Apparently speaking, books are written by experts and authorities in various fields and subjects. No doubt, their contributions are greatly accepted, but merely by going through the subject matter presented in these books does not enable us to be an expert, or an authority in that field and profession. For example, a novice doctor no matter how high his/her scores are in medical profession, but he is not eligible to perform surgeries. Each doctor has to go through mandatory internships, by working under the guidance of an expert doctor as a trainee doctor for some time. Afterwards, passing certain training and internships over a period of time, and under the presence of competent doctors he or she is allowed to perform surgery. Hence, we can say that without real time experience a person is unable to be considered as an expert professional in the field.

Finally, knowledge acquired from books is only for the sake of knowledge itself. On the contrary, experience teaches us how to apply that knowledge in real life situations. For example, reading the book about learning to drive does provide knowledge about various road signs, different driving situations, and information about the vehicle etc. However, we can only learn driving skills by applying that knowledge by sitting behind the steering wheel of the car. Similarly, learning to swim, ride a bicycle, baking, cooking all such skills are learnt with practice and experience only.

To conclude, it is correctly said, “Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.”