tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9487055.post3056712831370915750..comments2024-03-26T05:56:59.938+11:00Comments on THE PSYCHOLOGIST : JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9487055.post-42566575086498417522015-12-25T22:50:19.476+11:002015-12-25T22:50:19.476+11:00We might disagree here, John. I accept it seems un...We might disagree here, John. I accept it seems unrealistic to say so, but I do believe that such experiences in life are worth it, event if the worth isn't evident till later, or if the worth is something learn or acquired that is different to what one might have first expected. Life's path is made of stepping stones, and we usually don't realise the significance of those stepping stones until retrospect, and then we look back at where we have been and what we learnt along the way, and how it brought us to where we are with our current knowledge and understanding. All experiences contain lessons on life. When we learn to extract the lesson from the experience, and are thankful for those lessons too, then it all becomes beneficial and part of a learning and growing process. I am not being idealistic here. I could provide hundreds of case examples from mine and other people's lives to demonstrate that great growth and learning can come from the most unpleasant experiences and seeming wastes of time, providing one has a healthy heart and attitude towards truth, life, and freewill and its ability to learn, and towards others. I am a rare case, a conservative clinical counsellor, who unlike my feminist-leftist colleagues who treat society as a farm on which they seed, cultivate and harvest resentment and victimhood, I do not. And I have steered away from mediocrity too, preferring to work in many of the most extreme fields with the extreme cases (which my chicken hearted leftist colleagues are only too willing to let me do) and so being able to view all the angles on things that occur in people's lives, and extracting the learning, growth and relevance from them has become a skill of mine. I expect that in time the young man, if he has a healthy heart and a clear mind, will come to see the benefits that his eight years studying mathematics in university has provided him with. I also expect the lessons and skills acquired from the experience will combine with further lessons to provide his with composite understandings and skills. That is how life works, if we can see it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com