Life can be a complete bore sometimes, especially when you are down in the dumps and there's nothing much to look forward to. And the dreary existence gets to you. How do you find something you like and live with it?

Anyway, I wanted to blog about something earlier this week. Its about learning. Learning is a very painful process sometimes. We have it easy when we get to learn from others, but I still believe that experience is the best mentor. The best lessons in my life so far have been from experiences, often unpleasant. Its from these which you grow and really learn.

Take for example me trying to play Red Alert 3 online. Definitely painful as first; I got trashed pretty badly (and am still getting trashed). I figured that I probably needed to take alot of humiliating defeats before I could actually get semi-decent at the game. While I'm not aiming for that, I just knew that, somehow, I needed to undergo that process of losing again and again before I learnt.

Same thing for any first day at a new job. It is rarely a really pleasant experience (while, for us bottom feeders anyway; I expect that at the higher levels it makes a difference). There's alot of painful learning, having to know nothing and to learn and learn, before you actually get halfway decent. So there's another example.

I could think of a couple of other things which I went through painful lessons to learn. Its like an electric jolt so that you know it actually works. So sometimes, you really have to judge for yourself whether if you should continue getting jolts in order to get somewhere and learn what you really want to know. You could be in for a world of hurt before realizing that it wasn't really worth it.;

There's not much of a point I'm making in this post. I'm just randomly rambling off. Time, oh, how I claim to value it, yet waste it away aimlessly. We all need to learn how to invest our time; something which I'm guilty for not doing too. Time could very well be the most valuable thing we would ever have.

Life's just dreary at times, when there's nothing good going on. I wonder what, if any, would be my next bright spot.