The Library
I was nervous and excited to embark upon my new journey back in my home country. I thought my foundation is strong and was undeterred to grasp and assimilate experience to enforce what I learnt in a foreign land. I was nervous and excited about the tasks I would successfully carry out, be ready for brain storming sessions to improvise my knowledge, it was then when I spotted my love, the library!!
The library possessed my dream. I shared with my mother that I have a source to learn from in English language again in detail. I could smell journals, text books, guides, thinking that if I dive deep into the medical literature for the next one year, it shall empower me and enhance my skills. I read stuff on multiple subjects and wanted to discuss the plethora and so I did.
In school I was told, don’t let opportunities pass by, pick them up and do your best. So the library was an opportunity and a temple for success.
We are not rich in opportunities in my country. There are children who go to school for one time free meal and no teacher to teach them. There are students who have messed in scholastic knowledge and run to buy degrees and cheat in their jobs not because they are criminals or fools, but because they are deprived, they just don’t know how to do their job efficiently. They are not empowered and mostly our students are not confident, cowards who think that teacher’s words are not to be questioned and I think that is what schools all over the world are about, to clear doubts and help develop. The development of a scientific temperament is late. May be it comes with age and patience but nevertheless we need growth on time, and how our thought process is established during initial years of our career plays a role.
Reading and writing is a luxury that civilization has created. And so the library, that has attracted me again and again everywhere in all lands. One sight of books and I go mad!!
Anyone with such massive love for books and knowledge should be very learned and successful by corollary, but that is not the case!! If you read one subject in the library you can learn it. If you try a new book every week, you hardly know anything. If you read one subject of interest for 2 years then you master it, and apply it in the third year. Next you move on to another interest and work upon it while revising your initial interest in the first two years. What you gain in the second subject inculcates a scientific mind, your mind starts relating, formulates associations between two subjects, reminds and builds up on previous knowledge and you explore novelties and create new theories based on the knowledge. Where exactly is the trigger? Your initial two years in library. Be very slow but consistent, it is never too late. Unnecessary haste will cause inconvenience, be calm and patient as knowledge will come which can be in your nerves. You only have to schedule 5 hrs a day to make dream come true. Remember a system which depends only upon rote learning shall disintegrate. We should know how much sensitization we require from our teachers during formative years then we can conceptualize, practice, discuss more and more to actually raise our own standard…..all we need to do is to spend time in the library, preferably alone with books and with teachers who can guide you daily in the process.
If you cannot figure out why you are uneasy is because you are not reading or not channelizing your discomfort to books. Try this hack, once you are mentally and spiritually satisfied with the help of reading, you shall go for walks, exercise, make friends with all kinds of people, broaden your mind, not get affected by petty and trivial talks, enjoy life and at the same time become knowledgeable, find your dream job and love this experience, which certainly is abundance, because it is in your mind.
