Reflections: do it and move on........

This the last of the sequence on reflections for the time being.

A student came to me having failed in a very minor thing. It was not her fault, she was let down by others, but she was worried and upset by it.

We talked about how to avoid this happening again and the solution seemed feasible and so it was the end of the matter. The thing is, she then went to her friend and repeated the anguished tale all over again and I expect she was still fretting about it when she went to bed that night.

Anxiety and guilt-feelings are sticky. They are hard to shake off and I know this as well as anyone. The problem is that their long-term effects are quite corrosive.

The best thing to do is to analyse the problem, find a solution and then move on... Continuously picking at the same old wound will do nobody any good.

As I write these words, the imaginary editor that sits on my shoulder is saying, 'well, why don't you do that, then?'

Sometimes good advice is hard to put into practice!

The background music playing when I wrote this blog is 'Indiscipline' by King Crimson. A noisy bash, but quite good fun.