Think, think, think!

I'm wading through books and quotes and printouts and reaching across them occasionally to try to type into a word document that is slowly becoming an assignment.

Writing assignments always involves focussing. Something I am notoriously bad at. No one thought takes a single trip from point A to point B with me. I tend to see too much - some of which is directly relevant and some of which only seems to make sense to me.
If you've ever had a conversation over a bottle of wine with me you'll know how my mind meanders. It's like everything is interconnected.

I like being like this these days - at least on a human-being, person level. It means I am open, curious, observant and quite happy to have my mind changed if I really believe someone's said something informed and intelligent. I can't stand ill-informed ill-thought out, opinionated arguments, though - you can keep those.
I also love other people whose brains are like mine. I can't stand fixed people. I feel like slapping them. I found this way of thinking a problem at school though and I also find it a problem when I am supposed to write one assignment that fullfils a lot of criteria in only 3000 words. 3000 words is nothing! Which is why it is hard.

In 6 days my course will be over. My serious study will be over and I don't intend putting myself through anything this demanding ever again. It's not studying or using my brain or learning new stuff or having to read a lot of stuff or even write a lot of stuff that's the problem. It's the focussing, the doing things a prescribed way with sets of rules. It's limiting.
I'm not a big fan of rules. Many of them exclude or alienate people or ways of thinking and most people don't even question them they just go along with them because they are there - assuming that's it's okay to do things just because its become a habit.

I do wish so much that everyone would question why they think a certain way or do things a certain way more often. I think they would find they don't really agree with what they think they think.

(See - meandered!)

I didn't think I would get out with my camera today but managed to after all and snapped these young foxcubs: Baby foxes May 2012