Maintenance Means Learning and Sharing

September 2025 

Topic of the Day- Life. Like Architecture, is a ver. If designed well, it works. It’s beautiful, and it needs no directions. It needs maintenance.

How does one effectively maintain well in life? Some people are very goal oriented and seem to be obsessed with self-improvement. I think a lot of maintaining our lives is actually improving ourselves as we go through life. Maintenance in life is improving and moving forward, mostly through education.  

One concept I was not taught in school is the concept of lifelong learning. To give ourselves, we need to continue to learn. There are those who choose to simply exist. These people are selfish. They are selfish because they are depriving others around them of all they can be by not maintaining themselves. We must know by growing ourselves, we are actually helping others with all the positives in our own lives that we share with others.  

Our personal maintenance must include sharing what we know and sharing our experiences with others. As we continue to learn, we advance but we jump forward when we share this knowledge with others. It may be through instruction but even greater, it can be through our actions and the example we set as we live our lives. One might say a person has made a mistake, why would I want to repeat a mistake?  You would not want to repeat a mistake but you would want to see that mistake for what it is and learn from it so it would not be repeated.  

We all have a choice to make when it comes to maintaining ourselves. If we respect ourselves, we will find ways to advance in our lives. We will also find ways to help others who may struggle to maintain themselves. We can better maintain ourselves by helping others maintain themselves.