Renew the Sponge

    Momentary lapses of memory, bits of information that you had already calculated, can get lost sometimes, and then you have to start figuring all over again.
  The mind is like a sponge, you have probably heard that said most often, when watching children grow. They learn so fast, because everything is new, and therefore, bare investigation. To a large extent, this is because they are innocent, and to be innocent of something, can be said in another way, that you are ignorant on the subject. There is the reason, that when you see those people being asked something on the street, that most will make up an answer, rather then admit that they no nothing about it, and are ignorant about it, and nobody wants to think of themselves as ignorant, or, if you call it innocence, people believe that innocence is weakness? It is not.
  But we adults have crowded ourselves with so much information, most of which we will never use. Because of this over load, this mega load of information, we can find little time for curiosities. The problem is, that by loosing this child like inquisitiveness, stops us from learning new things. Learning occurs when our curiosity is peaked, and this almost exclusively occurs when we are innocent on a subject. It is our natural inclination to want to understand everything around us. This hunger, this desire to learn, is too often lost with the intricacies of daily life. But how can you regain the innocence of youth, now that we are old and set in  our ways? By having your spirit, which resides in the mind, to be born again. This new mind creates what in a spiritual sense is a new child. A child who to all things are new again. The child, that by who's innocence, will renew that sponge like mind that we all once had.