Don't know what's up.... Distances
Jul. 1st, 2006 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7Veruca Salt - [Somebody (Depeche Mode Cover)]--- I feel a lot of things coming apart, around me, right now. It's a delicate latice-work of problems and potential solutions, that I can't enact, at the moment, for various reasons. Not the least of which being that it's not really my business.
They don't tell you this, when you start teaching: You will become emotionally attached to the progress of your students. All of them. You want them to do well, because they've come to you to learn something, and you want to think that you're doing well. Above that (or next to it, if you prefer), you want them to learn. You really, really do. Otherwise, what the fuck are you doing, teaching? But there's only so far you can let that take you. There's only so much you can care, and try, before you have to realise that you've done everything in your power to get them through, and the rest is up to them. This is where distancing techniques come into play.
Prince of Persia - Sands of Time - [The Fight]--- I spent Wednesday and Friday mentally and emotionally separating myself, from my students, and their prerfoprmances, so that I could grade their papers and tests, without wanting to tack on extra points, for the hell of it. I think that it had an unforseen side-effect.
A thing that is like a thing can affect the thing. This is the nature of sympathetic magic, as I'm sure most of you are aware. So, if you are focusing on the Concept of Distance, for half your weekly time, what do you think that's going to do to you? Well, there's the possibility that it will enable you to feel all of the distance growing around you, in the places where you've drawn youself, in order to distance yourself from other things. You're striving not to feel, and so you feel the isolation, and the retraction. And there's not too much to be done about it.
One goal will be frustrated, if you play be the rules lad out for you. (A Perfect Circle - [3 Libras]). If you break the rules, or bend them, it will take roughly the same time to properly prepare for the backlash as it would to wait for it, and mend it all at once, more completely.
In a complete change of subject, every time you change yourself, you necessarily change the world. You are a part of the world. Simple necessity.
I'm out.
Word of the Day: Retract
They don't tell you this, when you start teaching: You will become emotionally attached to the progress of your students. All of them. You want them to do well, because they've come to you to learn something, and you want to think that you're doing well. Above that (or next to it, if you prefer), you want them to learn. You really, really do. Otherwise, what the fuck are you doing, teaching? But there's only so far you can let that take you. There's only so much you can care, and try, before you have to realise that you've done everything in your power to get them through, and the rest is up to them. This is where distancing techniques come into play.
Prince of Persia - Sands of Time - [The Fight]--- I spent Wednesday and Friday mentally and emotionally separating myself, from my students, and their prerfoprmances, so that I could grade their papers and tests, without wanting to tack on extra points, for the hell of it. I think that it had an unforseen side-effect.
A thing that is like a thing can affect the thing. This is the nature of sympathetic magic, as I'm sure most of you are aware. So, if you are focusing on the Concept of Distance, for half your weekly time, what do you think that's going to do to you? Well, there's the possibility that it will enable you to feel all of the distance growing around you, in the places where you've drawn youself, in order to distance yourself from other things. You're striving not to feel, and so you feel the isolation, and the retraction. And there's not too much to be done about it.
One goal will be frustrated, if you play be the rules lad out for you. (A Perfect Circle - [3 Libras]). If you break the rules, or bend them, it will take roughly the same time to properly prepare for the backlash as it would to wait for it, and mend it all at once, more completely.
In a complete change of subject, every time you change yourself, you necessarily change the world. You are a part of the world. Simple necessity.
I'm out.
Word of the Day: Retract
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Date: 2006-07-02 05:28 pm (UTC)Something's itching in the back of my head to be worked on. Working with ex-Dad, rising Up, moving up from where I am.
HAHA. [VNV Nation-Frika] just came on.
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