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Date: 11 April 2008 09:25:37
The second lesson in making brick walls fall down is to not only think outside the box, but forget the box exists and rather take the Frank Sinatra approach (i.e. "I did it my way").
When, just before a Sociology lecture on voting habits during my second year at uni, I discovered I was pregnant I was shell shocked. If I had been thinking within the box I guess I would have done things an ickle differently (after all attachment theory says it's important for mothers to be around their children lots during the first year to bond). As it was doing it my way meant moving hubby (at the time) back home so extended family could support whilst I did student Monday - Thursday, mum late Thursday evening - early Monday morning & wrote my dissertation on the train inbetween.
This approach also benefitted me when I was in the mist of my falling apart period. The CPN was adequately convinced what I needed was less rather than more professional intervention when I was able to say I would do my (ill fated) MA in political activism and social movements one day a week as my first step into "getting it sorted".
So today's lesson has been: even if it doesn't fit into the box and follow the text book but you can make it work go for it.
**Note to those wondering why I'm going through my life story yet again I'm actually talking to myself this week. Things are at a point I need to see where I've been in order to keep hope that the current madness might work out. **