"The trouble with our time is that the future is not what it used to be."
Do you remember teacher training days from your school days? Those days when you got to have time off school because its seemed the teacher's didn't quite know enough about teaching so they had to have extra teaching. Or at least that's what I used to think until I became one. Yesterday and today were two such days.
As part of my job, there are regularly times when, as a teacher, I am required to train and develop my understanding of new concepts and strategies coming into the education system. Over the last two days in work I have had the opportunity to attend two very different types of training courses. One course was excellent with plenty of new skills developed, new technologies implemented and new ways of doing things highlighted. The other was a day that, if I am honest, didn't exactly change me. It didn't change my way of thinking, it didn't change my practice, quite frankly I left the course feeling that I was no different coming from the course than I was going in. But thinking back that wasn't entirely true. Some point in the future I'm sure I'll find some use for the course.
Truth is, even when we don't feel our we have particularly achieved anything great or changed at all from day to day, even when we think nothing within us has changed, the truth is we are changing all the time and helping change others.
You are a a different person today than you were yesterday. Whether you like it or not when you got up this morning you were not the same as you were yesterday. From the cells in your body that have multiplied and changed during the night, to the age that you are down to the hour, we are constantly changing, growing and transforming into new people all the time. Scientists have found that we have the equivalent of a new body every 7 years. So we're are always on the road of change.
And it's not just our bodies that are constantly changing. Each of us on a daily basis go through experiences and situations that add to our memory and knowledge, constantly chaining our ideas, opinions and understanding of things, forming who we are and the way we live our lives. We are always changing.
And so I end with this thought.
Everyday we learn something new. Whether we realise it or not, we are growing and changing, transforming into new people, and our experiences on a daily basis help to contribute to the sorts of people we become. Even when we think the things we are doing don't really play much of a part of our lives, everything we say, do and see has an impact on the people we become.
I love the song "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield. It sums up today's blog perfectly. Your life is a book that every day is being written. You are a living, breathing novel, and how the story goes is up to you.
The only person who can truly dictate how your life will turn out is you. You are the writer of your own story, so don't let anyone else try to finish the chapter. Even when you go through things that you think have no impact on you, that haven't changed you or that you think are a waste of time...stop, pause and think! Those moments could be the very times that change you in some way in the future.
Yes, make choices and decisions that will help you become better than you were yesterday and make the most of every opportunity, every moment that you have. But also find time to make the most of those times and situations that seem to be a "waste of time". Time is never wasted when it's used to change us, it's simply recycled!
Remember, you'll never know when the minor things in life will become the major turning points of forming who you are!
Bywyd sydd yn byw! - Just living life!
RM
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