Life and Learning

By mary olumide

Mary shares relatable and original stories from her personal experiences in relationships, career path, decisions, friendships, grief, pain, love, family, education, faith and fun. One out of these 54 lessons with 7 added bonus lessons will definitely touch, reach and captivitate each reader. There is a something for everyone to learn or relate to because human experiences are unisolated, they cut across.

• Language: English
• Publisher: mary olumide
• Release date: Mar 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201404284

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Table of Contents

Title page

Dedication

Introduction

Lesson 1: Have Fun and be silly

Lesson 2: Mothers day

Lesson 3: Cats and dogs

Lesson 4: Another dimension of fear

Lesson 5: Labeling and limitations

Lesson 6: Influencers

Lesson 7: Find faithfully

Lesson 8: Likes and dislikes

Lesson 9: Feedback

Lesson 10:  Unequally yoked

Lesson 11:  Prevention is better than cure

Lesson 12:  Integrity

Lesson 13: Two great cooks

Lesson 14: Patterns

Lesson 15: Roads and lights

Lesson 16: Emotion vs purposeful

Lesson 17: Say a little prayer

Lesson 18: Increase to release

Lesson 19: Look out for yourself

Lesson 20: The three year old

Lesson 21: Doing the work

Lesson 22: Similar situations different results

Lesson 23: A language understood  by all

Lesson 24: Death, grief and friendship

Lesson 25: Stupidest and dumbest

Lesson 26:  Benefits of saying no

Lesson 27: Power of words

Lesson 28: Walk away

Lesson 29: The mean hygienist

Lesson 30: Listen, someone else knows better

Lesson 31: Two good women

Lesson 32: What you do not know

Lesson 33: Thrown under the bus

Lesson 34: Voice of objectivity

Lesson 35:  A sense of humor

Lesson 36: Drinking and communication

Lesson 37: A stern face

Lesson 38: The notorious rule breaker

Lesson 40:  Put on your mask first

Lesson 41:  Work culture and ragged clothes

Lesson 42: Interview the interviewer

Lesson 43: Two hours earlier

Lesson 44: Transitioning from employee to employer

Lesson 45: Outgrow

Lesson 46: Bargain or quality

Lesson 47:  A better idea

Lesson 48: Preconception and prejudice

Lesson 49: Eyebrow threading

Lesson 50: Love and contentment

Lesson 51: The mom who bites

Lesson 52: The unusual friend

Lesson 53: Gratitude and imperfections

Lesson 54: Dear Loyalists

Bonus lesson 1: Observe to know

Bonus lesson 2:  Read and follow instructions

Bonus lesson 3: Identity and parenting

Bonus lesson 4: Endure and enjoy process

Bonus lesson 5: Women and territories

Bonus lesson 6: Mature from criticism

Bonus Lesson 7: Girl Bosses

Life and Learning

54 Life Lessons From Education, Relationships, Work, Decision Making, and Faith

Introduction

As long as we breathe, life will constantly shine lights on our path to teach and point us in the right, healthy and safe direction. When a teenager is shown a beneficial lesson, he might be able to apply the same wisdom when he becomes an older man both for himself and to the world at large. Every learning curve in life is relevant and important for different phases in life's journey; a lesson not learned at the right stage has a slimy way of returning down the line until it is learned either the easy or hard way.

Life and learning have no favorites; learning or refusing to learn has a way of serving a plate of consequences either positive or negative. The choice to learn, how we learn, and when we learn is considerably dependent on each individual.

When we know and learn what we ought to at the right time through the best opportunity, we are definitely saved from several recipes for troubles, mistakes, and avoidable errors in the future.

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Lesson 1: Have Fun and be Silly

Along with two schoolmates, I spent 8weeks in South-East Africa. I conducted research on reproductive health in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. Two of us were assigned to Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, and the third worked with a separate organization in the commercial hub of Blantyre.

Ayemar who hailed from South East Asia was my colleague in Lilongwe. After long days of hard work, we would take long evening walks and shop the open markets. It was hard to miss my friend Ayemar in the crowd, not only because of her skin color but also because of the sweetness of her heart, her kindness, and thoughtful acts towards total strangers.

My caramel skin looked more like the locals, and so many times, while we were out and about, residents would approach me and ask me questions. Hundred percent of the times, they began conversations in the native dialect, this was the expected and cultural norm. I listened with rapt attention and nod in pretense as if I understood every word they meant, at times changing my facial expressions and sighing at different points of the conversation without really saying a word.

They could have been hurling insults, telling me I was beautiful, using abusive words or even trying to kill me; I basically did not understand a word, I was completely oblivious and clueless.

On the other hand, Ayemar would jump in the middle of the conversation frustrated at how everyone thought I should understand them because I looked like them. In exasperation, Ayemar would almost yell, she does not speak Chichewaaa, speak English.

I would do everything in my power to get Ayemar to shut up and just allow me to enjoy my moment of pretense and silliness. I thought giving a stranger a listening ear was fun yet honoring even when I barely understood what they were saying.

Have fun, be silly with people you know and others you don't. They might not remember you when you are halfway across the world anyway.

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Lesson 2: Mother's Day

The celebration of Mother's Day in 2018 came up almost six weeks after my mom's