I was afraid
I realized that I had been living in fear, of saying what I really wanted, of vocally actualizing those things to myself and others lest I be rejected. I held my breathe. I waited for the moments to pass. I ignored my own desires. I was silent.
I suppose in the end I was rejected. It wasn’t so bad. I felt. It hurt. It hurts. But they’re growing pains. Life, I think, is all bitter and sweet mixed up in one another and to take one on without the other is to live incompletely.
“Emotions drive the threesome of attention, meaning, and memory.” In essence, that just about sums up what we know about learning: attending to information, constructing meaning, and lodging it in our memory. Brain researchers have shown that emotions are critical to patterning, which is the way that information is organized in the brain, how we are able to retrieve that information. Emotions assist in both evaluating and integrating information and experiences.
However, as we know, not all emotions facilitate learning. Stress, frustration, anger, fear - all can overwhelm the brain with hormones and thought patterns that totally shut down one’s ability to learn. When major emotional flooding occurs it is true that one literally cannot think straight.”
- Eric Jensen
ps. If anything it’ll hopefully create some really interesting and inspired poetry. Isn’t that all a girl can ever hope for.
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