“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

[SoCalDem]

Gandhi knew that the future mattered....but he also understood that "the now" was important as well, even if it was mostly for the individual lives of people.

The acts that people commit in the "today" almost have to be selfish, because that one "today" does not allow for measured responses, active research to figure out future consequences.. If you live only today, you would automatically negate future implications of your actions.

If you look back at MOST democratic policies , you'll notice that they also tend to be future-oriented, while republican measures almost always are "now" oriented..and sometimes even apply retroactively.. their stated plans rarely benefit any future generations.

The learning has to be coupled with the living, so that intelligence can sometimes trump the willingness to live ONLY for today, and to throw tomorrow to the wolves.

Learned people have a hard time competing with the frantic "now-now-now" crowd, because all of us have the "now", and understand it well, but not everyone has the learning it takes to resist the temptation to throw the future overboard.

Republicans are only today... Democrats are both

Is education wasted on "today-only" people? or is current education skewed to their way of thinking?

[bigmonkey]

1. I've really taken this advice to heart recently.

I'm getting older, but there are things I'd still like to learn, and learning keeps you encountering the new. Still, it's not easy to do.

The Teabaggers show us, though, the consequences of shutting down the process of learning.

[SoCalDem]

2. I know.. It's a real kick in the pants to be nearly 61, and to realize

that most of it's now behind me..and there's less and less left ahead :(..but we have to just keep putting one foot in front of the other, don't we ?:)

[Echo In Light]

3. k/r

[angstlessk]

4. timely post for me...I have begun to REALLY study Excel and all its applications

I will soon become pretty well versed and am over 60 years old...and thought...too bad that when I die all my learning will be gone..too bad I cannot 'mind meld' to someone else when I am on my death bed!

[SoCalDem]

5. What's that motto? watch one, do one, teach one

It applies to medicine, but it could be excel too.. teach someone else what you know, and your knowledge will be a springboard for them to pass it one:)

I use excel, but only in the most rudimentary fashion..:)