...a mother looks at her child taking a keen interest in the so called "vices" of alcohol and smoking and thinks to herself with a sigh of uneasy relief that it's just after all, a keen interest?
What do we say when another mother finds her child enjoying the ocassional beer and smiles with a sigh of uneasy relief that after all, it's just the occassional beer?
What do we say when a sibling finds their other sibling deriving peace from those rums and cokes and shrugs if off with that uneasy sigh of relief that after all, it's just those peaceful rums and cokes?
What do we say when a father finds his child living in the company of drugs and alcohol and shrugs it off with a brush of uneasy relief that after all, it isn't that bad?
What do we say when a group of friends find another friend on the road or in the dumps and hurry in their sigh of relief that after all, this isn't the end?
And finally, what do we say when a family finds one of its members in the rehab and smiles with uneasy relief that after all, things will be well?
What do we say when we live each day in the world of defense?
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
PSYCHOLOGY
Now that this blog has been created, I feel the need to write. I feel I MUST write. Throwing compulsive thoughts and Ellis's irrational belief on 'musterbation' out of the window, I thus begin this post.
As mentioned earlier, psychology means more to me than merely studying and analyzing the mind or behaviour of anything that lives under the sun. The P S Y C H O L O G Y of psychology really surmount to something greater than the sum of its parts, whatever they have been identified to be, and here's a rather brief glimpse into what this gestalt really means to me.
Psychology to me means:
- An irreplaceable amount of time that I have spent with this subject.
- Experiences that encompass eight years of my life.
- An enigmatic space that accomodates every living thing on this planet.
- A lifetime of wonder that I have enjoyed diving into and waiting to delve into further.
- A weird sort of satisfaction and peace.
- The upheaval, joy, relief and anxiety coupled with numerous other feelings and emotions that I feel every time I study it.
- This sense of evolution I feel, within and outside me, for better or for better.
- Knowing and not knowing, living the paradox and surviving it.
- A subject I chose on impulse and stayed with out of choice.
- A kaliedoscope of every thing my life is made up of.
While this list is sure to be never ending, I'd like to know what it (psychology) means to you. And as psychologists would quote, "there are no right or wrong answers." :)
Come to think of it, summing up what psychology means to me hasn't been easy, to say the least. Perhaps this is why the bigger picture is quite so challenging to see and feel. How can it be easy when what we technically are looped on to are the smaller parts of what makes us whole?
And I guess, as Robert Frost would have it, that has made all the difference.
As mentioned earlier, psychology means more to me than merely studying and analyzing the mind or behaviour of anything that lives under the sun. The P S Y C H O L O G Y of psychology really surmount to something greater than the sum of its parts, whatever they have been identified to be, and here's a rather brief glimpse into what this gestalt really means to me.
Psychology to me means:
- An irreplaceable amount of time that I have spent with this subject.
- Experiences that encompass eight years of my life.
- An enigmatic space that accomodates every living thing on this planet.
- A lifetime of wonder that I have enjoyed diving into and waiting to delve into further.
- A weird sort of satisfaction and peace.
- The upheaval, joy, relief and anxiety coupled with numerous other feelings and emotions that I feel every time I study it.
- This sense of evolution I feel, within and outside me, for better or for better.
- Knowing and not knowing, living the paradox and surviving it.
- A subject I chose on impulse and stayed with out of choice.
- A kaliedoscope of every thing my life is made up of.
While this list is sure to be never ending, I'd like to know what it (psychology) means to you. And as psychologists would quote, "there are no right or wrong answers." :)
Come to think of it, summing up what psychology means to me hasn't been easy, to say the least. Perhaps this is why the bigger picture is quite so challenging to see and feel. How can it be easy when what we technically are looped on to are the smaller parts of what makes us whole?
And I guess, as Robert Frost would have it, that has made all the difference.
To begin with...
... I'd like to cheer on the creation of this blog. This has been yet another impulsive decision I have made, and I hope it's here to stay for a while, at least.
Why this blog might you ask? While the world's numerous and eminent academicians and researchers put together what psychology really is and is growing to be, I derive a different sort of synergy from this concept, if I may term it to be so. Where it technically means "the study of the mind", psychology means more than just me studying A or THE mind/behaviour. Therefore I hope to use this time and space to create a platform for me to write and engage with psychology, its academicians, admirers, researchers and of course you.
Having said that, I am looking forward to contributing to this space as much as I possibly can, with your inputs and contributions as well. I hope this space is treated with as much enthusiasm, if not more, to put together the two things I love dearly - writing and psychology. However, I do intend for everyone to enjoy this space - equally - psychology student/buff/enthusiast or not.
Welcome to my psycho-logical world. :)
Why this blog might you ask? While the world's numerous and eminent academicians and researchers put together what psychology really is and is growing to be, I derive a different sort of synergy from this concept, if I may term it to be so. Where it technically means "the study of the mind", psychology means more than just me studying A or THE mind/behaviour. Therefore I hope to use this time and space to create a platform for me to write and engage with psychology, its academicians, admirers, researchers and of course you.
Having said that, I am looking forward to contributing to this space as much as I possibly can, with your inputs and contributions as well. I hope this space is treated with as much enthusiasm, if not more, to put together the two things I love dearly - writing and psychology. However, I do intend for everyone to enjoy this space - equally - psychology student/buff/enthusiast or not.
Welcome to my psycho-logical world. :)
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