“Teacher talk is not merely conversation. It is the nuts and bolts of the job. It is how we assemble learning and strive to make it visible to pupils. Talk is the vehicle by which knowledge is spread around the classroom.”
Time runs away with us sometimes, stop and appreciate what you have, and search for what you want and obtain what you need. We have many things we need and have to do, so take a moment to do something you want, something you like, something you enjoy. Take your time and spend it wisely.
“‘Reality no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream.’”
“Modernity, in whatever age it appears, cannot exist without a shattering of belief and without discovery of the ‘lack of reality’ of reality, together with the invention of other realities.’”
How are you?
Perturbation - the mental disquiet, disturbance, and/or agitation
Emotions are complex, like people, they build the very foundations of our existence and our identity and personality. Without foreseeing them, emotions take hold strapping us into the straight jacket of psychological being. There’s a disjointed idea that emotions are personal but how is it that others are able to twist and manipulate them so? (I take the words ‘twist’ and ‘manipulate’ to hold both positive and negative connotations) why are our personal emotions so powerfully controlled by the actions of those around us? Why can’t they remain loyal and selfish; driven and granted only by ourselves?
One of the most recycled interrogatives of contemporary society is the phrase ‘how are you?’ I am aware of my own inability to omit this three worded phrase from any interaction, as I find it polite and courteous to excavate this declarative pair to this burning question. Is it socially acceptable to answer this question with utter truth or should we grapple with our inner most extrovert to tell everyone everything and just reply with an unthoughtful, ‘good’ or ‘fine’, and therefore detaching publicity of our emotions? This, i feel, is simply down to your emotive situations and the social proximity that you consider the other to be in regards to you. This is not to say don’t share ones emotions with those you hold dearly but to ensure those personal emotions stay as personal as possible regulate.
I am, with this discretion, usually honest with my answer to this unavoidable question, especially to those I hold in high regard. I would expect that others are not so forthcoming when in discussion with me about this question but, as I will always believe, your thoughts, feelings, time, emotions are all personal and only if you are willing to share will I probe further. No one close to me should feel that I am in desperation with need and want to pry into their personal affairs although I can often seem this way. Emotions are personal so be selfish about them.
Although there are many others in existence that we other hold great respect for; it is those people who can often influence and abolish our emotions. Without being too simplistic, have you ever had an exciting day filled with happiness and fulfilment just for one persons actions to stain it with sadness, worry, anger? These situations are, with regret, a feature of contemporary existence and society. I feel some days cannot simply pass by without being tainted by worry for something or someone; that my true feeling of happiness and pleasure has to torn up and disposed of by a bulldozer of negativity. Other days, it’s the people about you that allow you to be lifted from the grave of despair to the sky’s of excitement. People can really make a difference on those days of isolation and loneliness; make you feel the positive array of emotions that are capable.
People influence these, misleadingly personal, emotions. This is something that will never remove itself from humanity. How much you let others toy with the feelings you hold to personal is within your realm to control. Be honest when needing that extra bolt of emotive strength but hold all personal and secretive when needed. I often experience an array of emotions, both positive and negative, each and every moment of the day and many of these are controlled, influenced or changed by other people.
So the next time someone asks you, ‘how are you?’ Pause for thought to see the honesty of your emotive state at the time present but also to decided whether you are willing to depersonalise your emotions. Emotions are personal to whoever wishes them to be.
Time Passing You By…
Epoch - a particular period in time marked by distinctive features.
The cliche ‘life passes you by’ appeared to me today. I lay still on my bed whilst the ticking second hand of my clock made a repetitive beat, I leant down to observe the time to discover that is was far later than I believed it to be.
I feel that time just runs off without a care. It disappears behind us leaving only nostalgia and memories. I have this yearning to achieve so much within a day but hardly impact on the fringes of these expectations. There is never enough sand in the hourglass to achieve social, educational, occupational and family goals; to prioritise is a struggle against want and need.
We often count down to important moments that we yearn for with positive apprehension; but do you ever think you are wishing away the dawn and noon? There are events in our existence that we wish would leave our lives due to the negative impact they have on friendships, relationships and emotive well-being. And sometimes the only way to extinguish them is to wait for time to pass until the point of happiness is recaptured.
We are always told to use our time ‘effectively’ but this is clearly subjective and often directionless; what I consider effective time management may not be what you or others perceive it to be. Surely everything we do is an ‘effective’ use of our time as is builds, constructs our identity and persona and often adds to our memoirs of experience.
Being in my last semester of University, I feel that time has disintegrated. There is only a few weeks left to complete all the outstanding work, to secure the friendships I have built and to solidify my future with my other. Time, I know, will leave me short to complete all these things but my sentiment is there.
So, I’m not here to tell you that time is precious because most of you are already aware of this, my point is to use your time ‘effectively’ and do the things that make you feel positive, accomplished and happy and wade out those times or harshness and vulnerability; even compliment the second with the first and await those precious moments that you look forward to.
“‘This is the true nature of home - it is a place of peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division. In so far as it is not this, it is not home; so far as the anxieties of the outer life penetrate into it, and the inconsistently-minded, unknown, unloved, or hostile society of the outer world is allowed by either husband or wife to cross the threshold, it ceases to be home.’ - John Ruskin, ‘Of Queens’ Gardens’”
What do you see?
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“The point is that there is never a moment when one believes nothing, when consciousness is innocent of any and all categories of thought, and whatever categories of thought are operative at a given moment will serve as an undoubted ground. - Stanley Fish”
“The fear that in a world of indifferently authorized norms and values the individual is without a basis for action is groundless because no one is indifferent to the norms and values that enable his conciousness - Stanley Fish”
