I believe there are many kinds of people in this world. I’m a learner. I came to this life to learn and that is probably the only part of my personality that is intact from my first memory till now. I know some of you will say everybody is constantly learning but i’m not talking about this. What i mean is that some people are fighters for nature. They love to engage and are proud of winning a battle. Some people are seducers. They live to achieve success in gathering a big court around them. There are the workers. They love to produce and doing so spending their days building things like ants. That’s what i mean when i say i’m a learner. I produce and i seduce and i fight as well. Everybody does but my drive is to learn. It’s something that excites me. So i will be that person in a party that likes to stay outside of the group paying attention to what is happening and i will love Salinger’s book because i remembers me of my self. I love photography and my photos have people i don’t know and many have no people at all. I love to read technical books and learn new stuff and anything i can do my self i will prefer over something already done. I’m not talking about furniture but gadgets and finding new use to things. I’m 42 and i still do that stuff. Other aspect of this drive of mine is that i love to spend my time in bookstores and museums and movies and when i go out i’ll go to a show and not to a party. I spend my money travelling and i don’t like to repeat the places i go. Only NY but that’s a new place every time you go there. So i live like a voyeur watching and learning and registering and learning and reading and learning and listening and learning and so on and on. What about you? What is your drive?
Interesting choice of words – a voyeur. I call myself a watcher. I watch people and trees and plants and wind. I watch and I learn and I read and I wonder. I watch spaceweather.com because I want to watch out for the sun’s explosions; I watch people in museums looking at paintings. I watch because I want to know what goes on under the surface – what’s a person’s take or motivation; what’s the story behind the story; what’s a squirril think as it dashes from in front of my car and then turns to watch me? I read and I watch and I wonder. I think life is pretty amazing.
I love to watch too. But i’m a learner because i like to analise what i’m seing and compare and search for qualities in it…
I produce and I seduce and I fight as well…..I am a seeker.
Brilliant post…are you aware of that?
Thank you very much!!! Seekers are great… i met many in my adventures… i was there to gather and they were there to lead further on… great people the seekers… : )
You amaze me. Truly you do. I so much wish the world were filled with more people like you.
I’m a voyeur. A very wise person once told me that it is the portraits of life we carry that helps us go on. Those portraits are very small as our fingernails, but we hold them dear to our very beings.For myself it is so. I have tiny portraits, often of people, stangers even, I’ve encountered. If not for those beautiful portraits, I do wonder if I could go on.
Wow…what o lovely idea!!! These portraits are like the footprints you left in life…You are the one that amazes here!!! : ) …Thank you very much…those are really kind words and though i don’t deserve them it really moves me. Thanks for being here with me…
I think my passion is for learning also. I know it is. Sometimes for teaching as well. But no too much of any this going on lately.
Great reminder!!! I love to teach…i believe who loves to learn loves also to pass on knowledge! But i’m not a teacher… I trie my best in my working environment…
homo erectus, homo faber, I think, so I am (Descartes) – there are many trials and errors, to find out the best term. A human being is an animal who likes to learn all life long – a very nice definition. I hope, that describes me too …
So you are a learner!!! I don’t believe all are…many leave leaning seconded by acting on already known. many are really eager to act. Many are eager to forget and find tranquility. I see learning is your drive too.
[…] long β a very nice definition, found via a wordpress blogger, who lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil: https://giulas41.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/voyeur/. I hope, that describes me too […]
thank you, you inspired me to write something similar again:
http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/learn/
I just love when you do that!!! Thank you!!
I feel the same way though the ant in me is gaining strength everyday… I do love learning. π
Eliz
Yes… The ant is the big trend these days. I couldn’t scape it too… : )
You should say I will be that person in a party that “likes” instead of “like”…you spelled it wrong.
Thanks!!! Corrected…
J. D. Salinger right? But I forget what he wrote… The Catcher in the Rye? Eventually that book came to remind me of myself too.
Yes… The Catcher in the rye… it’s a great book…
These comments are almost as interesting as your original post —
But the original post is still the most interesting.
Yes, a learner. I am almost twice as old as you and still — my passion is to learn, more than to teach or act, more than to seduce or produce, FAR more than to fight —
Clearly if this is one’s passion, it lasts a whole life long —
Thank you!!! I hope to keep being a learner my hole life.
Voyeur… I would never have thought to put it that way, but it’s a good choice of words. I’m the same way. I watch, I listen, I like to learn. I often refer to myself as a jack of all trades, master of none, because I’m always learning this, that, and the other thing. I feel like I have to try to soak it all in during this one lifetime.
Same here…at least in this life time it will be like this…thanks!
hmmm.
haven’t got a clue what I am. A fool, perhaps.
Always blundering into stupid situations, thinking that I matter!
It’s sort of funny, I often group my staff into categories like these, it helps me know how to handle them should a conflict arise!
You are no fool.. I’m sure of it…For a long time i figured i was a helper because i was always connected with people that needed me for a period. After that period when they got better i would kinda loose the contact or the interest…Maybe you are a helper…
When we quit learning, something in us dies. At least that is the way I feel about it. So many things to learn and so little time!
True!!! I think that’s why we pass along to our children… Because we want to keep going even after we go…
I had to look for the word drive in the dictionary; i understand it means force or energy. I think my drive is curiosity, like the curiosity of a cat, it’s never ending. We keep on being curious.
That’s it… That’s my drive!!
Graduate of the University of Life, with honours.
My grandad once told me, “Learn something new every day” and that is exactly what I try to do, whenever possible.
Great thinking and advice!
Hey you hit the nail on the head with me. I am a knowledge seeker. I love to learn and am gifted at putting others at ease. I like to keep harmony and balance with relationships. I like to find solutions to problems. I love to learn or I am bored. I love to read, and if I could I’d read a book a day. I love the way your writing comes out. So, real. I was born on 12/12/66 what sign are you?
i was born on 18/09/69 … Virgo…Do you think there’s some relation?
You are a nice blogger. Are you a movie director? I am wondering if you know Ray Prado and Gesine Prado? I kind of know them. They were business owners in my town.
Hi Jessica!!! Yes…i direct films…. what do you do??? Sorry but i don’t know them…are they in filmmaking???
I have a whole mental diaolog that goes along with this, but back between 2003-2006 I was at this diner in Barre I poured maple syrup from a metal pitcher on to my pancakes and a big black ant came out and landed on my pancake and was laying there dead in the syrup.
Wow…some people eat ants…
First let me say I am sorry – I am WAY behind on my reading!
I am more a learn by experience type of person I think. In other words, more of a doer than a watcher. I’m not sure if I am a fighter or a seducer – maybe a combination of both. I’m also an ant though.
I’m clearly just a mixed up, muddled up kinda gal. π
Mixed up kinda gal?? Sound awesome…good for any occasion!! : ) …i’m way more behing my reading than anyone…
haha