Learning is such a nice experience. I had recently joined Guitar classes and have been going for almost a month now. Today I graduated from learning fingering to Chords :) Going to the next level was really satisfying.
Earlier when I had joined the classes, half of my co-students were almost 1/5th my age. And the rest were 2/3rd my age. So there was a slight hesitation in the beginning on how the class would be and how I would be able to cope up, with so much young (!!!) talent around me. And the strength of the class was much less (may be 20 or so spread across 4 hrs, each student gets one hour of class every week). But after one month, I see that the strength has increased considerably and the I find lot of people of my age joining the class and it feels good that you are one among them.
I remember how I was learning just the 'asdfgf' part during my typing classes, almost 15 yrs ago, for one whole month. Patience and perseverance are two main requirements for learning. You know what I went on to pass my higher level typing with good grade.
One more advantage of continuous learning is that it makes you feel younger always. You always feel that you have so much to do, you forget your age ;)
So you want to feel younger, feel relaxed, relieve your stress or just pass your time, learning something and if it is something which you always wanted to do and which might give you more pleasure, then definitely go for it. It really helps.
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. ~Henry L. Doherty
