Sunday, May 8, 2011

Feel your education

Today is an emotional day for me. One of those where tears stream down your face not because of fear, but because of sheer ecstasy.

I'm gonna spin all round till i come to the point here. So bear with me.

A staunch believer in education, i've always thought it's higher purpose is to set one free. That one has to learn to unlearn. One has to be conditioned, to know what it's like to break though the mould and generate new ideas, invent and create.

But the journey is not as cut and dry. In between the books, the exposure and the will to become something in life, we often lose out on the one of the most important subjects of education. Emotional training of the psyche.

I'm not talking about love or friendship. I'm talking about dealing with your emotions regarding self discovery, about self loathing when you make a mistake. about the guilt when you fail or the pride of success.Everyone keeps talking about monitoring your thoughts and learning to control your mind, anyone thought about learning to deal with the emotion that controls it?

Unlike the cliched association of emotions to the heart, it is my belief that they control the brain. the common perception is that emotion is to do with feelings. and that feelings are, well, what you associate with people etc etc. But what about the feeling of intelligence? of self-assurance? of creativity? Aren't they functions of the mind? your common math problem? then why the dissociation with the emotion of it?

I am a very emotional person myself. Now ppl usually interpret this in 2 days. The first common assumption is that my emotions pretty much rule me and that i do everything as a consequence of them. Well, let me tell you, that assumption is a 100 percent true. Pretty much what i do.

Now the interpretations - 1> that emotional people cry about everything all the time. 2> This person is so brave, he is emotional. But i differ from both, i want to introduce, here , a third dimention. That my emotions are my the catalyst to my intelligence. that emotions are the currents that run the brain, are the grey matter. For me, i do things that feel right. and that is how i have achieved whatever little success in my life, by it feeling right.

Hence, i can FEEL my education, FEEL my job and FEEL my higher calling. And i do hope, that here on, if you do read this, that you aspire for such education that let's you feel.

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