Learning to actually move on

I just realised a few days ago the actual difference between learning and knowing, to know something is to merely have information, but to learn is a whole new world. People always give the advice ‘move on’, and I thought I knew how to move on, but I wasn’t able to actually move on until a few days ago, because I hadn’t learnt it. To learn is to acquire the skill of something through experience or being taught, and I acquired the skill of moving on through the acceptance of one simple fact; ‘there are certain things you actually can’t do anything about’.

Oh, I’m sure you know this, but have you learnt it?

Take when I wrote WASSCE for example, I was a straight-A student in school, top of my class, but when the results were released I didn’t even make the banner. I could cry and wail and complain about how it was not fair, which it wasn’t, after hours of studying, but there was literally nothing I could do about it, it has come and gone. I can’t change the result, can I?

Then sometimes you think, ‘Maybe if I had done this differently’, now that is good, you’re realising what you could improve on, so taking the lessons and learning from them, is important. You may already know all this, but have you learnt it?

Learn to move on through accepting that sometimes there really is nothing you can do about certain situations, and you’ll see how your mindset changes little by little.

You stub your toe, it’s really painful, so shout, scream, then make sure you're conscious of it next time, you can’t go back in time, but you can move on from it.

Alexander from MANI.