This week I've began learning about the medical side of palm reading and I realized something; I hate my topic. The idea of my topic seemed better than doing the topic, hopefully that makes sense. In other words, palm reading seemed like a cool, creative thing to learn about, but now that I'm actually doing it I'm sooo bored. I think I know why. I'm not doing anything physical. I'm not making/creating anything. I'm just observing and memorizing. There's really nothing more to it and I'm a little glad that I'm about to be through with genius hour. I'm thankful for the experience, but now I know that the next time I attempt to learn something I should make sure I'll be doing something where I'm able to create.
This may sound odd, but even though I hate my topic, I'm still pretty excited to learn more. I guess that's a good thing, because that means I'm not just going to give up easily.
Anyways, the whole medical thing doesn't make sense, based off of my research we all have some kind of a disease or some sickness. That's also why I drifted from this project, it just doesn't make any sense.
So something weird is happening, the more I write about my dislike for palmistry, the more I start to like it again? Because I'm in love with my topic right now... I'm in a bit of a conundrum.
You crack me up. You sound a lot like me with a topic--it becomes a love-hate thing. Even if palm-reading turned out to be a flaky thing, hopefully you've learned something about how you learn and what drives you. Sounds like you need to create rather than just learn, which doesn't surprise me.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you could delve into the why of this topic. Why did people make up stuff based on palm lines, anyway? How did this kooky thing START? Where did it start? Did someone just make this stuff up one day when they got bored, or do humans just always need to explain things, no matter how weird?