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Topic: Scorpionic Web
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PeaceAngel
Knowflake Posts: 7430
From: Australia
Registered: May 2008
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posted December 22, 2008 02:47 AM
 
I read your post in the New Years Resolution thread. I'm just about to start studies after much uncertainty (and procrastinating) over some years. Just start somewhere and trust that you'll find what's right or suitable along the way. If you have a spiritual bent at all, just ask the Universe, or God, or whatever you believe in, to take you where you need to go or be. I just basically applied for a course that I wasn't 100% about and then over time became really excited about but handed it to the Universe saying if it was right let me in if not, just take me where I need to go. I got my letter of confirmation a couple of hours ago. Have a go. One step in any direction is better than standing still in uncertainty. It just feels better inside yourself. You'll find what you like and don't and your strengths, etc, as guidance, along the way and the beauty of being a grown up is that you always have choices and the right to say yes or no. Jump in the deep end and go for it.  Lots of love.  IP: Logged |
Scorpionic Web
Knowflake Posts: 900
From: Pennsylvania
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted December 22, 2008 02:41 PM
PeaceAngel-Thanks for your comments and concern. I've finished two years already, loaded up on all sorts of electives in many curricula. I love scholarly pursuit, I find some level of fascination in just about everything. But now is the time to pick directive courses, and there is nothing in life for which I can imagine forging a dedicated career... lots of small interests, no defining professional passion. At this point I have no choice but to choose a path. If I spend more time dabbling in idle interests, I'll only incur undue expenses. I'm thinking of majoring in some form of History and minoring in some form of Psychology. I can't see myself caring for a career in fields related to these subjects, but I find my intelligence more apt to these topics and as interested in them as any other field of study. IP: Logged |
PeaceAngel
Knowflake Posts: 7430
From: Australia
Registered: May 2008
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posted December 24, 2008 09:40 PM
Reading that - the moment I read "psychology" I just thought to myself, well, duh!, look at this guy - your intelligence and natural insight. Even if you don't work directly in psychology - it's a qualification that you can use to carry you into other areas. Seems like second nature to you - that's the impression you give, or that I get from you.Also, while we're here, just want to say to you that I really appreciate and respect the honesty with which you reply to a lot of the questions at LL. You don't give people the sugar coated answers that a lot of people want to hear. You are very honest about yourself. I really respect that and you. IP: Logged |
Scorpionic Web
Knowflake Posts: 900
From: Pennsylvania
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted December 25, 2008 12:29 AM
PeaceAngel-Thank you. People around here have offered me so many nice compliments lately, I just don't know what to say anymore. I feel a simple "thank you" is trite, but I don't really know how else to convey my gratitude over the internet. Psychology is fascinating. But I see myself suffering from the same failure proven of much of Freud's work: A strong gift of perception, muddled by convictions too opinionated to sustain the ultimate of humanistic studies. Many have said that psychologists study people in order to help themselves more than others, so perhaps I'd be able to learn to curb my own inclinations through experience. So, yeah, I'll probably give psychology a try. With a loaded 4th house, and Taurus intercepted in the 10th, astrology has also given me reason to consider my interest in land and real estate. Scorpio is known for resurrecting suffering, dying, and dead industries, maybe this U.S. housing crash is my time to get started. IP: Logged |
PeaceAngel
Knowflake Posts: 7430
From: Australia
Registered: May 2008
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posted December 25, 2008 12:43 AM
That's interesting because I've often heard that the occupation that people take up relates to something that they need within themselves.Hmmm - I should become a personal assistant because I need one!  Well, I could actually use one about now. Or a nanny or housekeeper.  I think with psychology - when you are as insightful about yourself as you are - you can use that self-understanding to see into others and offer those perceptions where they are unable to do that for themselves, through relating/empathy. The compliments. A simple thank you is never trite. Sometimes it's hard to elaborate on such things. And humility understood - a genuine thank you is all that ever need to say. It's graceful and it speaks everything you are thinking and feeling. Genuine. IP: Logged | |
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