Yes, it is true that we learn something new every day and these add to our long list of unraveling and discovery. We look back when we carry out post-mortem and we have so much to recall and recount as it pertains to the new things we learnt or some new information that we came across. Yet, of all these the most obvious and the simplest of all things is what we unlearnt. The only challenge would be that over time we have been made to learn and little attempt is made to make us realize the unlearning is also part of the building and growing process.
Aha! It may not be true that we do not unlearn things, perhaps the issue is that emphasis has always been laid on learning so we pay less attention to the unlearning process. Yet, consider why we wane our kids of breast milk or baby food; and how difficult it is to achieve it sometimes. Many a time we even feel guilty waning our babies, we feel we are been mean and punishing them, still we do it for the good of the child. None of us will be happy if our kids remain at the milk level; rather in our little show of cruelty, we bring and grow a new and better 'good'.
Now let's do something different with unlearning, "a commitment to 'UNLEARN' something daily. And it's a very simple process; everyday look back and ask yourself what you have unlearnt that day. It could be something you saw differently, a word you chose not to use again, or never to stand aloof in the face of wrong acts or oppression. Maybe what you must unlearn is loafing away and "waiting for the coconut to fall"; sometimes it could be just telling yourself that things have turned around. See it could be something different daily, and yet it could be a long and tortuous process of daily appraising your unlearning curve on a mandate. It all seats with you.
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