Right Realization

My brain has been realizing something lately... It leans right.

Those tests for right and left brainers have never really meant much to me before, or provoked any desire to know within me, but lately I've been thinking about how I think.

It's funny to me that I am right-brained. I try to always be the logical one, the person who is in control. Yet I'm also that person who runs off to a glorious hot air balloon festival that she stumbles upon because her heart can't make her feet move in any other direction. I'm very compelled by my feelings.

Essays, English, literature, heavy conversations and thoughtful emotional responses are all what I love about school. I hate the structure of it and that we have to be so thoroughly tested. I'm going to be a teacher with activities drooling out of her eyes and ears at all times. I'm going to not bore my students with meaningless nonsense and lectures. If I can't pay attention to meaningless nonsense, why should I expect them to want to either?

This is me as a student: http://homeworktips.about.com/od/learningstyles/a/rightbrain.htm

I want to be accommodating to those struggling students who don't see the purpose of a structured learning system, but who still are addicted to learning. This also explains why I abhor homework. Busy work = full body shudder.

I also realized that all my suppressed, desired career options are quite right-brained. Why I didn't see this about myself before astounds me.



My dream career aspirations:

• Fashion designer- In ninth grade I dressed up as one for "Reality Town" where we pretended we lived our dream jobs in a fake job world in our school cafeteria. I love Project Runway and would roll all over the carpeted floor of Mood if I could.
• Music supervisor- Chris Mollere is amazing. I would love to be the mastermind behind the perfect music moments in music and TV shows.



Every fashion designer should have one.
I'm going to make one of these.

• Art teacher- To see the faces of kids who find a place to enjoy school because of how art class makes them feel. I learned a lot in my drawing classes in high school, and I wouldn't trade those drawings and feelings for anything.

• Magazine journalist- I love reading creative story interviews of famous people that give you a different insight to who they are. It shows the power writing has to change how people are viewed.



The art class from Speak. Classy movie about art making a difference in
how a person figures out what they think about life around them.

Our brains are rigged to lean certain ways, to organize or disorganize certain things so that they make more sense to our human selves.

Fascinatin'.