OK, so yesterday lunchtime I was doing some background reading for my online degree, and I found a couple of chapters where I started to feel some real emotion - I was really angry at what was being said, and I got absolutely judgemental about the situation. I simply had to ring up my supervisor, and I started to rant and rave about this stupid book, and if this was what the subject was about then I really had made a bad choice.
He said some soothing words, and suggested that I go away and start to read another book that gave a different perspective on the subject. After I calmed down, I felt silly - why had I allowed myself to get worked up about something that I was studying? I then realised just how important this is to me, and that I have invested a lot more than just time and money, this is going to be a piece of me for some years to come. So of course I was emotionally involved. But I don't need to be quite so passionate about everything I read!
# posted by Mary @ 4:03 PM
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