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Yo people! Has it ever crossed your mind that if you quit learning, you might very well get stupid? Had a conversation with Noelle, a friend from my days at Erskine, about how I feel like I can't memorize anymore. (I think that's where the conversation started.) Somehow it got around to me realizing that since the exhausting exercise of college, especially my senior year - during which I claim that Music History fried my brain - I have stopped actively learning. Sure, I read a bit, and I explore different musics a bit, but I don't have a mind towards actually learning anymore. Noelle was talking about people getting mental diseases/disorders when they get older because they stopped using their mind at some point and it just sort of, atrophied (for lack of a better word).
I don't want to get stupid ... (er), and I most definitely would prefer not to go out of my mind when I'm older. Eccentricity brings enough challenges of it's own, for crying out loud!
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Call me crazy, but you might not be learning as much because you are no longer in an enviroment where all you do is learn...like a school...
And I seriously doubt that you'll ever stop having a hunger to learn - and that's a good thing! =) Don't worry friend...you won't get stupid.
heh.... the MND lines ought to stave off senility a while longer. ;)
i find teaching to be a massively mental exercise, but i tend to default to lecture/discussion/left-brained stuff if i don't take time to be creative with my planning.
getting involved in activities you enjoy that require mental work -- like acting -- seems like a great idea. ... An excuse to enjoy life more fully with the nice benefit of an active & happy brain.
=)
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