Its funny how I titled this reflection days ago with a different idea in mind, to now where I only see 6 weeks behind me. A perception of which is confused: A growing tower of knowledge, work and planning, ideally a well constructed visual artefact; instead conflicted by being an unstable floating tower (thank you Analemma for this thought) with pieces only held together, solidifying slowly into one tall-growing tower. No, I don’t exactly know what that means either. Try not to dig deep.

There is a common misconception about teaching in the world that bothers me. In our country, it is a not-so-popular profession because nobody really respects it. Excuse me! In what world does something that essentially makes people who they are, builds their brains to understand all that they can, be a less-valuable opportunity? Does our education system bring us up this ridiculed, to be ignorant of teaching, and in turn, learning? My mind constantly is bugged by the responsibility of ensuring such experiences aren’t derived out of my projects this summer. Popular opinion is what makes it the difficult part: because its not just the opinion, it is how much importance it gets. And that is a very uncomfortable space to be in. You can understand why the world works the way it does and leave it at that. You can also do something about it in your own little way. The problem of the latter is responsibility, the discomfort, and the (seeming) endlessness (which I’ve learnt to understand) guides better design and user experiences, but nobody ever tells you the amount of self-doubt and questioning that sticks around the same time.

I reckon it goes away by zooming in and doing one thing at a time.

If only our brains were capable of being perpetually convinced of the same ideas.