Window to a new world

It's a concrete example of how our lives are limited. I've always loved
being able to type quickly. I've felt
it enables me to succeed in a workplace that has required professionals to
type--a skill that used to be
needed by secretaries, not engineers. Now everyone needs the skill to
communicate in cyberspace
and there are almost no typists left. Yesterday i started school to become
a court reporter. A captioner.
You have to learn stenography. A skill i've always avoided thinking only
secretaries needed it.
But just today, after only thinking about stenography i can see and feel
how limited my whole life has
been because of my inability to capture the spoken word at a faster clip.
My profession is learning and
teaching. But when i am learning i can't record what the teacher is saying
fast enough to capture it all,
to prepare myself to teach later. I now see that this hampered me
tremendously in college and also
hampers me in my minute-taker role which i often assume in group meetings.
I now realize i've been limited
all my life by this lack. I am voracious for stenography. Something i
formerly dismissed. Because i opened
that window and looked. And i tell you this as a very simple example at
how what we don't know of haven't
looked at or can't do can limit our lives and hamper all our other
wonderful abilities. Stenography is
essential. I know that now. Yoga is essential. I know that now.
Meditation is essential. I know that now.
Escape from the karpman drama triangle is essential. I know that now.
There is a window of explosive growth
waiting behind every curtain. There's nothing special about stenography.