So another week and a half has come and gone.. I know I said I would write every saturday but things came up and I was unable to make a post. Anyways I was having a rough week with my professor coming to visit me to do my evaluation. It was terrible. She accused me of not attempting any of my goals and doesn't believe I'm doing anything in my right scope of practice. I guess it is partly my fault for not calling her as often as I should be and handing in some of my journals late but really it's the last leg of what has been 4 years so can you really expect me to do the crap that our school thinks is nursing, how many nurses write journals and don't work in thier own scope. It is pretty obvious sometimes how we should act, and if we weren't doing it then we wouldn't have gone this far. Whatever, I re-wrote my evaluation and hopefully she likes that one.
I was emailing back and forth with a friend of mine who is also in the same boat. It's difficult not having the support of our other classmates. Even though we can call or talk to them online it's not the same as being able to see them every now and then. It's wierd. But yes, i was telling my friend how besides the lonliness factor, being in a small town is beneficial not only to finding lots of different experiences in all scopes, but it's beneficial to the "self" as well. This eerie quietness that I speak of when I mention Powell River I guess can be sort of an analogy for my life at the moment.
"The eerie quietness" is me being scared of myself. I'm seeing things in myself that really I knew that was there but was too afraid to face it. I'm growing here I feel it, i'm scared of it but alowing for whateer happens happen. I am finding a new respect for certain personailites and recognizing why it is I dislike them (notice how i use the word dislike instead of hate). It easy to look at the ugly parts of people but to find the good parts is the challenge and having been here on my own I am immune to the thoughts of others and am able to strip down my ideals. I can see that masks are made for reasons, and these reasons are prone to remarks but still it is a reason and it has to be respected... even though i think it's messed up, it's still theirs and they can have it. I have a lot of stupid reasons. Like not being able to open up to someone as i used to cuz of a stupid boy who broke my heart, or not showing affection to a friendly cat cuz i think it's gonna dig their claws into me.. haha! see all stupid reasons for me not to do something. But the all lead to one thing, reason leads to fear of self. the questions of what if and why not jumble my thought and here I am able to come up with facts instead of excuses.
it was good for me to come here. even though i missed out on a lot. and miss a lot of people it was good for me to come here and just focus on myself instead of all the stuff that I put myself through. I am almost ready to come home. A few more weeks here and hopefully i'll return with a new self worth.
my best friend has reminded me how i was brought up and i'm so glad for her words. I've sort of lost myself and those values in the last year and I'm glad i'm noticing it and being able to reconnect with my old values. maybe now i'm ready to share, something I couldn't do before. I'm ready to share, but not ready to actually do it just yet.. hahaha!
but thank you powell river. thank you for your eerie quietness that has open my mind to where I want to go.