so enchanting and terrifying…

one of my psych profs, Dr. Susan Burggraf, has a premise that is related to the establishment of her model on how learning occurs in the brain that i adore. It is called The Academic Love Story. Essentially she posits that for many academics and professionals, the discovery of what discipline one wants to specialize in is biologically very similar to that of falling in love with a person, and that the relationship that develops can be related to a marriage in the way that neurotransmittors are engaged.  i just can’t get enough of the sweetness and accuracy of this analogy. i for one know intimately the obsession of infatuation with every new installment of content in my degree. i am often left reveling, wandering in dazed amazement of joy at how my mind and heart has been stretched (serotonin? endorphin?); or find myself driven into the early hours ravenously attempting to absorb absolutely all that i can get my hands on regarding the intellectual object of my affection (dopamine? ephinephrine?), like a lover who would rather lose the sleep and pass the night worshipping the face of their beloved. …and having been blessed by both being raised by married parents, and being exposed to committed and passionate faculty who live and breathe their respective callings, i can only imagine that there must been interactions and parallels in the dynamics of growth, compromise, exploration, and comfort between the dedication of one person for another and that of a person for a range of ideas and efforts.                                [grammar=gorgeous.]