refrigerated leather jackets and the warming oven of learning

You know the phrase you learn something new every day is incredibly cliché but true. I recite it to myself every time I learn something new unexpectedly. There is a difference between choosing to learn something new and the information catching you by surprise. And the more I learn, the more I realize that I don’t know.

Take these lessons I have learned recently for example:

DON’T leave the house with the oven on. You just may not have a roommate fortunately returning from a shopping excursion to save your egg rolls/apartment from a smoldering fate. As much as you may like them more on the golden side, ovens are unpredictable at the best of times. And so am I as I learned.

WHEN you try to hang your coat up in the refrigerator, you know it’s time to call it quits. Who knows what quits is, whether it is laying off an excessive consumption of something that makes you groggy, or if it’s just sheer natural exhaustion – the point is, I learned not to put our standalone closet next to the refrigerator and that I need more shut eye.

WHEN in Rome do as the Romans do – to a point. The locals are comfortable in their routine and stick to what they like. I stumbled upon my favourite restaurant period by asking someone at a store down the street where the recommended sushi place was. Ask me about my experience there sometime and try it out and you may just join the growing club.

HANGING out at sports stores like MEC is just a really pleasant experience. The general populace works at keeping fit and as a result everyone is naturally high on endorphins. Counted the most consecutive smiles in one place in my entire life. Similarly, if you constantly hang out at brooding emo musician’s concerts, chances are you could find yourself clinically depressed. Sort of proves my belief in the universal law of affinity.


LASTLY, I am happy to report that I learned that I don’t know everything and that humility lessons come in all shapes and sizes. Accepting responsibility for our words and deeds and taking the necessary course of action to repair and strengthen and continue to grow will forever be something that takes time to master and is as dynamic as life itself.