Talk About Putting Your Personal Business Online......

I can't believe that a picture of my real-life junk drawer was something for which I'd ever find artistic use; but somehow, it seemed just perfect for this particular blog.

What's This Junk In The Junk Drawer?

Sometimes I get in the mood to try write something, and it ends up turning into a whole lot more writing than I planned. I'll start writing, writing more, and then end up being interrupted, needing to do some "real work", or else just getting tired and having to stop.

My problem with this kind of thing is, though, that if I get on a roll when writing, and then if I stop (for one reason or another), I tend to lose interest. Some new thing to be spinning my wheels about comes along, and I'll start the whole process again. I reassure myself that it's not ADHD, because I'll often write for hours (not necessarily all at once, although I've been known to do the all-at-one-time kind of things too), truly believing I'm getting closer and closer to completing a piece of writing that will be really worthwhile. And then I never quite build up the same level of steam on the subject that I've had at the time I began writing.

Material on this site isn't stuff I'd recommend reading, because it won't be the least bit satisfying. Some of it goes on and on with all kinds of points to ponder - only to just stop short. It's horrible, and I shouldn't have it online.

Here's why I do: I need all these scraps and bits of writing in one place, where (if I do decide to go back and finished them) I can select from one post or another, and do whatever needs to be done to finish them. As it is, all this mish-mosh of stuff is everywhere - in my PC, on SD cards, on flash drivers, and on and on.

As with any junk drawer, I may or may not later have a use for whatever is found in this one. In my online-writing efforts, I'm re-organizing and re-thinking a lot of things; so this just seemed like a good idea to me. So, read if you want to - but I don't particularly recommend it.

Of course, everything on this site won't be unfinished. Once I get it started with some of the unfinished stuff, I'll be posting stuff that's actually finished - but that's truly junk (even more junk-ish than the unfinished ramblings I'm posting as starter posts).




Friday, February 18, 2011

Unfinished, Random, Thoughts on Psychology

This may truly not be worth posting, however....

         
Sometimes I think all those experts made a bigger deal about child development than it really needs to be.  I think if a baby/young child is made to feel loved and secure (as long as he doesn't have brain damage or mental illness of some sort) he'll grow into a secure child who likes to learn and ultimately gains yet more confidence as he grows (or at least the kind of "deep, inner, confidence" it takes to have good relationships.  I think everyone has minor insecurities about some "superficial" or "minor" things; but I think all it takes to be able to have healthy relationships.  Since a secure person usually knows how to make the most of whatever looks he got (rather than wearing "what everyone else is wearing"), he'll probably also have a good, basic, self-image (even if he has the usual minor insecurities about something in his appearance).

If you think about it, there are pretty much two main things that make a person "have issues" - serious insecurity as a person and lack of good coping skills.  I think a secure child will reach a stage in development (eventually) when he'll have faith in his own ability to develop some coping skills.  With the brain developing most connection in the first three years of life, it seems as if the latter stages of child/teen development are all about working on the "finer points" (like developing coping skills, interpersonal skills, and eventually a philosophy of life).


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