Hello Love,
Today was a pretty good day, but also kind of an emotionally wrought one. First, I got to speak with my advisor about my honors thesis lit review that has been ongoing since the start of Summer. It was really productive and helpful, but also a little devastating; you know how it is when something you create can come to feel like your child and you love it, and then someone suggests a slightly different idea.
Her advice was massively helpful, I have to admit, and it put me on the track to writing a truly beautiful, truly substantial, (publishable) paper. I had to take the elements about transformative learning by Jack Mezirow out, which really bummed me out, but after talking to my therapist, I felt a lot better about it. There’s still everything else in that paper that I love wholeheartedly, and the only difference now is that I can do those elements justice with something well written, based on good research, and that has my influences too.
So this brings up the second thing I did today, which was have my last therapy session with my therapist. We’d been meeting together biweekly since November 2023, and he really meant a lot to me and helped me. He has good reasons for going, and I have never once thought that this was an exacting punishment on myself, but there were nonetheless heaps of tears at that session. It really means something to harbor an intimate connection for someone, and for an extended period of time just makes it that much more beautiful.
I don’t know if I’m going to get another regular therapist any time soon, but I do appreciate what it did for me in the time that I had the privilege of having it.
The THIRD thing I did today, was go straight to the library and work on making this lit review go from 40 pages to 15, poof.
And I did it 😉
Thanks for listening, I appreciate it.
Tate
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