Moving swiftly on from one set of circumstances to another, is really easy (once you have decided how to move forward)
I wasn't sure how easily I would adapt to going back to full time study and training, and the fact of the matter was mainly that I didn't, easily or even at all! You might ask yourself....... lots of questions and question your abilities and attitudes. It's always good to have a regular mind check. Its not uncommon to have regular physical check ups, so it's as valid to have a good hard look at your mental and emotional functionality.
That's that then. I tried something, and it didn't work out for me. As I have always known; An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And at this point I would like to reiterate (with quotations from some of the most wise men) why institutions have never suited me, and why I don't suit them.
Institutions.... government, churches, industries, and the like have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction -
Charles Cooley
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him -
D. H. Lawrence
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don't know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like
burnt paper -
I wasn't sure how easily I would adapt to going back to full time study and training, and the fact of the matter was mainly that I didn't, easily or even at all! You might ask yourself....... lots of questions and question your abilities and attitudes. It's always good to have a regular mind check. Its not uncommon to have regular physical check ups, so it's as valid to have a good hard look at your mental and emotional functionality.
That's that then. I tried something, and it didn't work out for me. As I have always known; An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And at this point I would like to reiterate (with quotations from some of the most wise men) why institutions have never suited me, and why I don't suit them.
Institutions.... government, churches, industries, and the like have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction -
Charles Cooley
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him -
D. H. Lawrence
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don't know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like
burnt paper -
D.H. Lawrence
Institutions and me have never worked. Any surprises there? None. If I had liked institutions (and had wanted to be institutionalized) I would, most likely, have worked as a doctor or lawyer.
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