It often feels to me that things around me are moving fast. It also seems as though the current mantra is: keep going, just try it, but that sometimes my efforts to live into that feel more like: failing forward and then succeeding and then failing anew. As I navigate, I sometimes feel that I am being pushed beyond my limits as I exert effort to “keep up” and respond to the constant waves of the new.
I know that if I can slow down and think of my own learning curve in the face of this torrent as grounded in my capacity to adapt to changes in the environment rather than control them, then I might steward myself through this all more effectively.
As an educator, I know that living is learning and learning is changing, adapting, evolving, transforming and allowing myself to be transformed. This suggests to me that I need to take in my failure and success as information or data. Perhaps from there, I can use that data to establish footing that empowers me by providing me with a little balance. A balance that comes from filtering what I use in the face of ‘all of it’; and some self-discipline in setting boundaries. To achieve this, I need to use some sound critical thinking skills: How does this new concept/technology/idea connect with what I already know? Can I use that to engage with it? Is this relevant? On the other side of this – what skill or disposition will I have that I want or need?
If I can live into this myself than maybe I can help children know that simple truth and then maybe I have conferred something of lasting value and significance that they can use in life as they face their own unforeseen torrents of the new.
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