Misery and awe

Once upon a time I was so afraid of getting up in front of people and performing, or giving a speech, that I wanted to drop out of college before taking Speech 101.

Fortunately I took the right class and the professor turned us around by ingenious methods. One of which was having our first attempts be "bitch sessions," speeches on things we were upset about, then felt strongly about, etc.

It worked.

Now I am finding that writing My Thots is much easier when I am in angst, or writing about something that really upsets me. Since my world is pretty even anymore, the only thing that really gets me going are politics and I am trying not to write about that.

It makes it hard on days when I'm not miserable, or in awe. However it does remind me that a great deal of my life has been spent in one of those two extremes and life is much easier now it isn't.