A-Maze


 I am feeling amazed, but the Elizabethan literary definition of amazed. To feel, quite literally, in a maze. Following my Shakespearian theme, to quote, Antipholus if Syracuse from Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors:

“He that commends me to mine own content

Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.”

To put it bluntly, I am feeling a bit lost, however I did find the Skype call on Wednesday 25th September 2019 very supportive and it has given me ideas of inspiration to help me move forward.


A couple of things that really resonated with me from the call, first, was to allow myself space to be in the moment that you are in. The second, that I need to trust myself in the process and remember to acknowledge that nothing is fixed or definitive. Finally, that I need to keep going. Keep swimming, keep searching, keep researching.

We cannot take shortcuts in our studies and it is with hard work and a curiosity for knowledge that helps us drive forward. I recognised that many others in the Skype call feel the same way that I do right now, regardless of their module and that is okay. But now I need to help myself to refine my thinking. I have gone back to the drawing board and started to mind map, re-read my blogs and my inquiry proposal. I realise that I need to focus more on selected elements of “creativity” and “culture” rather than feeling overwhelmed by the whole process, after all, we can only do so much.

Question to learn, not question to answer

I remember asking for some advice from my dad once. I gave him loads of options, I wanted an answer. “What do I do dad?” His response, was “do nothing”. I was completely shocked. I didn’t understand. “What do you mean, do nothing?” and he replied, “sometimes doing nothing is the answer.”

Now, I am not saying doing nothing is answer in studying, but actually, what I realised was that sometimes we are trying too hard to force an answer, we need to wait for moments of realisation to come to us. Allow space and time to think first. So long as we are still going, we give ourselves the opportunity to be open to ideas and inspiration and that open doors rather than gives answers. Question to learn.

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