Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Why Psychological Melfunkshins?


The human experience fascinates me. Since I was a child I have been obsessed with people and how they do things. My favorite all time question for the people I am so lucky to share my life and time with is "why". Why did you do that? Why did you say that? Why do you think that? "Why" is such a wonderful question and although I know it can be tiresome and irritating at times and I can come across like a child who never made it past the age of three, "why" has kept me going over the years. "Why" prevents me from becoming angry and jaded. "Why" has given me the answers to things that would have otherwise seemed irrational and pointless. There is always an anwser to "why" and it is not necessarily the answer I would have assumed, had I not asked.

After 29 years of asking "why" and only two years of studying it at a university level I am in no respect an expert on the matter, but I am still motivated and inspired to keep asking! So... I am going to take a leap of faith and open myself up to you by sharing some of my experiences. I will try not to talk out of my ass by attempting to reference, as much as possible, the brilliant men and women who are experts in the fields of psychology, sociology, and philosophy (AKA "the gods of why"). Psychological Melfunkshins will still consist mostly of my opionions, thoughts and experiences and though they should be taken with a grain of salt, it is my hope that they will entertain or, maybe, possibly, slightly, hopefully??? ...INSPIRE you in some way... But I don't want to get ahead of myself here! It's just wonderful to have the oppertunity to write about something I love.

Attempting to scratch the surface,

Melfunkshin