A quote by Mary Beard:
“Action without study is fatal,
study without action is futile”
As I look into my locker for the books I will study tonight, I ask myself ‘How can get, or do, more action from what I study in my restricted environment?’ How can I get more from what I study to stick better in my mind? The majority of my flashcards for Spanish, that I had made, got lost in the shakedown the other day. I will make more. I’m not letting a little pebble in the road discourage me from persevering a goal that I have set out to accomplish. I remember making flashcards for Spanish my first year in prison. I would stand in the chow line, or when waiting for a move to be called, and pull out my flash cards out to study. Not for sure why I gave up the study other than I did not have no end in mind for using Spanish. I had not learned perseverance. I think about how much I would have learned by now if I would of stayed at it. Like so many things in life I knew persistence, but not perseverance. I’d hit a small bump in my path and practically give up, take the easy way. I didn’t have what I needed to go the distance, the long haul in getting something accomplished. I now have reason for learning Spanish, several in fact. I have the perfect opportunity to learn all that I can for when I get out of prison. I have learned perseverance for the long haul to get to the end in mind.
In writing this, as I do so many other times, I’ve answered my own question of what I can do for action for my learning.
Perseverance, I keep at it, and it will stick. Persistence for learning daily, and perseverance for the long haul to the end in mind.
Poco a poco
(little by little)
