What is learning to you?

 21st century has  bestowed upon us modern mediums to explore our field of interest, be updated with whatever is happening around and connecting with people around the world but, every action has an equal but opposite reaction. 'Competition', a struggle to reach to the top, an important part of this century has pushed people into an inescapable  fire of struggle, worries, stress and pressure to which learning is the only way out. But my friends, with learning I do not mean going through books which talk about,'How to understand life better' or browsing through motivational videos on internet.  

Learning has various faces to it. It is rightly said that, "learning is the key to grow in life", but by merely focusing on one face of it won't take you far. No doubt education gives you a place and an identity in the market and is also what most people take as the only meaning of learning, which is not true. The other one, which is least focused, but is equally important to know the essence of life and looking it through another and better perspective, is to look around and see what the nature is trying to show you.

Everything that happens around you or with you in your day, always have something to learn from. Like a person walking by you, fighting on phone with a colleague might just bring your attention to the fact that, we don't just take our work as a job, but it has become our lifestyle, making it completely materialistic, with fading love, family time and most important, our  true selves. Like, focusing on the fact that, being helped today by a person you helped yesterday, might bring in you a sense of helpfulness, taking you one step ahead to being a better person because betterment is another way to success.  

These small learning play a big role in making you look towards your life in a  more positive manner. It gives you a more creative, more precise and an empathetic view towards dealing with something or someone in your life, be it as difficult as taking a life changing decision or as simple conveying your thoughts to a loved one. A learning like this helps you to become sensible, mature and an understanding person, which obviously improves all your relationships, be it a relationship with yourself or  with a loved one which makes your life more meaningful.