Wednesday, April 22, 2009

compartmentalize

when i was a grad asst. in memphis i remember one student explaining that she was good at compartmentalizing. i didn't completely understand what she meant...

she was in high school and i was in grad school...and she had something figured out that i didn't. shoot.

you go there. and you go there. that goes there...and that has to go over there. no you stay there. and i'll go over here.

do you ever feel that way? that if everything and everyone is in one compartment that you'll be overcome?

i sometimes feel like that. you know that one drawer in your house...mine is in my kitchen...where everything ends up in that drawer, you're not sure where that one thing goes and then the next thing...so you end up with an out of control and consuming drawer that makes your heart race?

it's okay to want to have some separation, right? is it fair to maybe consider these feelings the tensions of boundaries? i don't know.

thoughts.

i need to get ready for the bus. yesterday i ran to the bus stop and it wasn't a good look.

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