Experience is the Hardest Teacher

Truth be told every experience that built us as the women we are were painful and one of the worst and hardest experiences we've ever had. We grew hearing experience is the best teacher everywhere, but the day I caught the insight that it was instead the hardest it changed my perspective about standing out amongst my peers. As a young woman aged 27 I have had to go through experiences that women at 60 might never have gone through and the pains and hurts I suffered from the early ages of 15 made me realize that to step out and make it you first have to find out the challenges other women went through and avoid them. This is because learning from someone's experiences makes experience the best teacher but learning on your own it is the hardest. This was the principle that help me turn the tables around for me first as me and reach out to others around me. My wake up point was after my family status changed after the passing on of my father and having a paralysed mother to cater for, while fending for myself and my siblings. I realized the things I was experiencing were instead breaking me down instead of building me up. Then I asked myself; if experience is the best teacher why am I instead been broken? Then it occurred to me that by being the best teacher it meant searching out mentors from whose experiences I could learn and avoid all the mistakes and errors they had made and learn how to use 1 month to accomplish what took them over 2 years to accomplish. This was what led me rely first on my number one Mentor the Holy Spirit. I also figured out that my immediate contacts; family, friends were not of an understanding of the future I saw. That was when I started visiting the cyber for research. What people pay lots of money to learn through computer classes I learnt alone because of my hunger for a change. The questions I had in my mind I typed them out and asked the computer. Little by little I read from great minds which gave me more clarity to what the Holy Spirit had directed me to do. This comprehension inside of me was greatly affected by the experiences of those outside and it was what helped me flee from the hard and painful experiences of growing up as a young woman. Now I am ready to send it back outside by empowering my mates, family and communities. For we can not be of help to others when we cannot be of help to ourselves. It starts with us!