For months, one of my girlfriends has patiently had the same damn conversation with me.
“Okay,” I’ll tell her. “This shit that will never change is pissing me off and now it’s definitely time to bail. That’s it.”
“And will you have learned what you need to learn here, if you just bail?” she’ll ask.
“No,” I’ll grumble. “No, I won’t.”
Sigh.
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The Tuesday before last, I was trapped. For hours. Continue reading “the opposite of trapped”
I have almost never understood my feelings.
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Reading Susan David’s Emotional Agility in October, I grew more perplexed by the page.
With rare exception, I’d always thought of feelings as noise, or “the random, unwanted variation or fluctuation that interferes with the signal.” Typically considering feelings to be merely distracting noise, I didn’t pay them too much conscious attention.
The way David described feelings, though, it was almost as if … feelings could themselves be the signal? And that, even when not themselves the signal, they could actually help find the signal?
When understanding finally dawned, I was flabbergasted: Continue reading “signals”
Deborah L. Robinson 