I am most thankful for the things that I did not learn as a child and refuse to accept as an adult. I did not learn to be fearful of anything and so fear has rarely held me back. I did not learn that failure means I am not good enough and that gives me the confidence to try again. I did not learn to mistrust first and that has allowed me to see the good in people. I did not learn to simply accept things as they are and it’s made me willing to question and to work for positive change. I did not learn to doubt myself and that’s made me confident enough to stand up and to deal with adversity. I did not learn just one way of thinking and that gave me the tools to discover how to think instead of just what to think. I did not learn to hate and that only left the option to love. It may be strange to think this way, but I am more concerned sometimes with making sure my daughter doesn’t learn those things than I am with what she does. I think that once you learn something it’s pretty hard to unlearn it and children pick up on everything they see. If we don’t stop hating, if we don’t stop mistrusting, if we live in fear, If we doubt ourselves, and if we simply accept things as they are then the next generation will learn to do those things too. For me the best way to avoid those things is to never teach them in the first place. I am a seeker of knowledge, but I am very glad for those things I never learned.