I feel like I over-thought this a bit at the beginning. I was thinking about spontaneity, serendipitous, synchronicity, and surrender but kept getting distracted by what I could make the random lines or scribbles into. My squiggles turned into a little rain cloud, which ended up being a little Winnie the Pooh doodle. And now I can't stop singing the "Little Black Rain Cloud" song in my head. I definitely think surrender will be the most difficult of the S's for me to jump into, but I plan to give it my best shot. I used to doodle all the time in classes or on road trips, but technology seems to have taken the place of my doodles. My notebooks were replaced with a laptop and a cell phone, and now my doodling has dwindled. My doodles that used to be really random and spontaneous have gotten a little too organized, so I'm not even really sure if it's actually still a doodle. They weren't intentionally taking a particular shape, but they kinda ended up that way in the end. I guess I'm seriously out of doodle practice. =/
My last first class got off to a great start. While there were several things that really stuck out to me in class today, the TED talk about choices was something I wasn't able to stop thinking about for the rest of the day. I'm an incredibly indecisive person. Deciding what to have for dinner, what shirt to wear, or sometimes even something as simple as what show to watch on TV is far to complicated a task for me to figure out. A part of me wonders if it really does have to do with the fact that we have SO MANY things to choose from. My over-thinking probably has a bit of an influence, but I'm sure that just the idea that there are hundreds of channels or ten different meals I could make or twenty t-shirts to choose from definitely doesn't help matters any. The idea of Fishbowling is incredibly intriguing to me. The thought that having boundaries or limits to choices would actually make life more satisfying is really interesting. I'll definitely be trying to put myself into my fishbowl when choices and decisions get a bit too overwhelming from now on. Maybe it will help me to focus more on the more important aspects of a decision instead of the anxiety of trying to actually make a decision.
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