Life will offer lessons

WHAT WILL LIFE TEACH YOU?

Sometimes life offers some lessons and it is up to an individual to either accept the offer or turn the other way.

We can’t deny the fact that through experiences, we learn some lessons that enable us to deal with problems, and with life those hard experiences give us the hardest lessons of all. But a lesson does not have to come from a painful experience to be a lesson, it can come from the simplest experience of them all. We wait so long to actually learn that we don’t get to appreciate the smallest moments that pass us by in life. We want to go through the worst first before we can say we have learnt a lesson at a cost of something valuable to us, even life itself sometimes.

Even when a consequence of an action is described in detail, no one seems to care because they have to first experience it themselves or see someone to close to them go through the experience for them to learn a lesson from it.

“Ndabona othile emthini encwina enegazi, wandijonga kabuhlungu wathi yiza wena”

These words are from a Xhosa hymn, that I use to sing back in my choir days when my tenor voice was still as firm as my thigh. I got to hear them in a different light as Mhlobo Wenene! fm played the song late last night. Let me explain the meaning behind them and then get to my point. I have no knowledge of the author or song writer, but he/she was describing how Jesus [othile], was hanging from a tree with blood dripping and calling upon his servants to come. I assume it’s Jesus, since it’s a Christian hymn, it just logic I guess.

My point here is that even though we’ve sang this song for many years with different versions in other languages, it has never been enough, even with its descriptive manner, to make us full followers of Christ. I guess stories don’t really make good lessons, they need to be backed up by experience for them to be valuable lessons.

But at what cost? Should life lessons be really that valuable to a point of losing life? Why can’t we make each experience in life a lesson even if it’s just a story that doesn’t come with hardship? What are you going to take from my story? Or will you have to experience the same hardships as I did for you to learn a valuable lesson?

Think about it mchana! It’s just not worth it. I can only appeal to your better side to learn from the most simplest of lessons that life gives. I can’t control your actions but I can only start with myself and try to be a better me every day. Because that’s how life’s experiences have taught me.

Learn from the lessons life has taught you mchana, even the simplest ones and trust me, life will start becoming a happy experience.

Take the offer Mchana and learn and don’t look the other way.

Just be happy Mchanam!