The Ability to Teach

From the moment of birth, individuals learn lessons. Our parents teach us to smile, laugh, eat, and walk. We are not only taught by parents but by teachers, coaches, friends, and strangers. As we adjust to what we are taught, new skills are discovered, and passed on to a new generation, like ripples in water. By doing this, individuals mature and grow.  I believe that we all have a skill or lesson to teach someone else.

            When I was three years old, my mom introduced me to horses. I immediately fell in love with them. As I grew, she decided that I should receive some lessons to become a better rider. I was nine years old when I obtained my first riding lesson. After that lesson, I was elated and could not wait to have another one. I kept coming back to the same barn almost every week for the past seven years. I have gained a great deal of knowledge and riding skills from my horse trainer. Now that I am seventeen years old, I have started to share that knowledge of horses with others.

            When I teach kids how to ride horses, they are nervous and scared at first because they do not trust the animal. As I teach them, they start feeling more comfortable, just as I have grown more comfortable with horses. They gain the skills as I did, and as they get better, they will be able to teach their peers in a similar manner. 

            My teaching experiences never would have happened unless I had the will power to learn and then teach. As individuals learn one lesson, they teach it to more people, and the lessons continue to spread, like ripples in water. This leads me to believe that we all have a skill or lesson to teach someone else.