Lesson five - Exploration and travel ‘They and theirs’
Lessons learnt have to be transcended. Once a child passes the fifth grade, it has to progress to the next class. It cannot say, “No, no I want to stay on here. I like my teacher very much!” In much the same way, keeping in mind the lessons learned we too must move to the next level of learning.
So far we have learned the lessons of ‘I’ and ‘my’, ‘you’ and ‘yours’, of ‘us and ‘ours’. From twenty eight to thirty five, people explore the world. They want to know what the world is all about. Interest in things pertaining to society, the nation and other countries develops. This is the time of travel and exploration. One travels within one’s own country learning about its diversity as well as to other countries, learning about their cultures and traditions too.
Lesson five is recognising/realising that families other than “mine” also exist in this world. This is the stage of an explorer and an adventurer out on an exploration trip! At a physical level, this is actually going out and visiting places and meeting new people. At a mental level, it is reading books and expanding one’s horizons of knowledge. Such people are no longer bound to their families. They do not remain mere householders in the sense of holding on to their households. They move out into society and the world at large. At this stage we realize the existence of ‘they’ and ‘theirs’. We understand that there are others in this world and some things belong to them.
Lessons learnt have to be transcended. Once a child passes the fifth grade, it has to progress to the next class. It cannot say, “No, no I want to stay on here. I like my teacher very much!” In much the same way, keeping in mind the lessons learned we too must move to the next level of learning.
So far we have learned the lessons of ‘I’ and ‘my’, ‘you’ and ‘yours’, of ‘us and ‘ours’. From twenty eight to thirty five, people explore the world. They want to know what the world is all about. Interest in things pertaining to society, the nation and other countries develops. This is the time of travel and exploration. One travels within one’s own country learning about its diversity as well as to other countries, learning about their cultures and traditions too.
Lesson five is recognising/realising that families other than “mine” also exist in this world. This is the stage of an explorer and an adventurer out on an exploration trip! At a physical level, this is actually going out and visiting places and meeting new people. At a mental level, it is reading books and expanding one’s horizons of knowledge. Such people are no longer bound to their families. They do not remain mere householders in the sense of holding on to their households. They move out into society and the world at large. At this stage we realize the existence of ‘they’ and ‘theirs’. We understand that there are others in this world and some things belong to them.
(To be Contd....)
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