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    Food for the brain!!

    I finally received confirmation over funding for my degree with the Open University this morning and my place is now confirmed on the course An introduction to social sciences.

    I would never of been able to do this a year ago, even though I was still very opinionated over many social issues. Looking back those opinions where made through years of alcohol and drug abuse and although I still stick by many of them, I know my judgment may of been clouded. Being sober has really given me the option to look at things more clearly and focus on the bigger picture rather than the self-centered image I had of the world and is clearly what made me so angry and bitter towards it. i reflected upon this only a month ago and relaised that I falsely got pleasure out of a misconceived idea that I was making a difference by being angry/bitter at the world around me. I thought I was doing something; even by getting pissed I was showing the world I was unhappy and at least I was doing something rather than nothing. I realized that truthfully I WAS doing nothing or nothing constructive to make changes in my life so I could then make a difference.

    Truthfully I cannot get all soppy and sentimental over the MWO program as I am not one who has followed it. What I can get sentimental about though is the people I have met here who have in some way contributed to making me feel I am worth something and given me encouragement to do this. So many thanks for helping me realise my potential.

    Love and Happiness
    Hippie
    xx
    "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." Kahlil Gibran
    Clean and sober 25th January 2009

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    Food for the brain!!

    Hippie,

    I am one who went back to University after my children were in school.

    I am so glad I waited that long because my view of school was so much more diverse. I loved taking my classes, I loved the challenge of the work, and I enjoyed being mature enough to have serious discussions with my professors.

    I majored in Math and CS but lapped up my sociology, art history, anthropology courses and am waiting until I retire to go back to school and take all those classes I could not fit into my budget or schedule.

    Good luck on your new endeavor. You will enjoy it immensely and your life will be enhanced from it.

    My daddy always told me to go to school as long as I could. He said, "In life, you can never be hurt by knowing too much but you sure can be hurt by not knowing enough." He is still, today, at 84 a vital, growing, loving man. He is one of my heros.

    Love,
    Cindi
    XXXI
    AF April 9, 2016

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      #3
      Food for the brain!!

      Congrats Hippie. I just love going to school too. So good for the brain but I really like the folks I meet.

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        #4
        Food for the brain!!

        Hippie - I am really pleased for you.....a big congrats from me!! And go enjoy! (And still take your enquiring, vibrant, questioning mind with you though....don't doubt your 'strong views'; they have a place...I think we just learn to voice them more softly and more compassionately and see them in a more balanced way....this world needs people with vision - don't go all dilute!!)

        So, go to and a hug from me...

        Love FMS xx
        :heart: c: :heart:
        "Be patient and gentle with yourself - the magic is in you."

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          #5
          Food for the brain!!

          Hippie, I am really proud of you ........

          BB xx
          sigpicXXX

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            #6
            Food for the brain!!

            well done hippy

            This is great news. You wont believe the doors that are opening for you. Grab it with both hands and it will be yours forever. I got a chance to back to education at 31 and it changed my life. I will never forget the day of my first lecture - the exhileration of such a wonderful chance was awe inspiring. YES i said here I am at last. What a day. the friends you will make will keep you young and distract you from your troubles and learning with young people is great. I think you may be surprised at how much more than them you will know. it is great to be part of young life and dreams your own come back to you. my new friend -this all happened in the lated]eighties in IRELAND, are still around - I studied to be alawyer but it took ages, but finally finished in 1992 before my 40th birthday. I had plan to leave my marriage but needed a career to live on. Being such good lady lawyer i walked away with nothing. I had advice from colleagues but they reckoned that the ex was so difficult,it was going take years to finalise. But i at least got some value of the house and with the help of a cousin who was my bank manager, I managed to borrow enough to buy the smallest house in Ireland and I think the happiest. I live alone most of the time nnow that kids have flown the nest -except when my boyfriend comes to stay which is quite often. He lives 160 miles away but we talk all the time. Another story,

            The courses you are doing sound really interesting and it is great you have decided on the path to .knowledge What I find is that you have it forever and we are so lucky to have second chance .FAmous saying - maybe irish - youth is wasted on the young

            good luck to you and the courses sound great. well done:goodjob:

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              #7
              Food for the brain!!

              Awesome Hippie! I recently finished my degree through Univ of Phoenix online.. and somehow managed it even though still a drinker! lol.. I also Love the social sciences and took several psychology types of courses that fit into my degree in business..

              I second the sentimentality of the the people here... I just plain haven't had the money yet to buy some of the products here.. but I plan to at least L-glut.. when I can.

              You're gonna love school! What a great sense of accomplishment you're going to have... ..

              Enjoy the journey
              P.S. You can't love if you don't love yourself... :heart:

              As you wander through life, sister/brother, whatever be your goal, keep your eye upon the donut, and not upon the hole.
              - Sign in the Mayflower Coffee Shop, Chicago

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                #8
                Food for the brain!!

                Thanks again for the words of encouragement here today.

                My studies will be through the Open University online so I will not be actually attending a University. I will of course have exams in the future to sit at OU appointed sites near where I live. So I actually won't be experiencing the cliched student lifestyle of spending all my money on booze and partying to the wee hours of the morning every night!! THANK GOD!!!. Limers though is just starting her 2nd year with the OU doing her Psychology degree so will be a year ahead of me and I've kind of railroaded her into giving me some support in these early months!!lol There is also a great online forum for the OU where I will probably be spending a lot of my time once the course starts.

                I do feel that going back into education at my age gives me a bit of a head start as I feel I have a bit more life experience under my belt than I would have aged 18, when I first could of opted to go to University. Of course back then I didn't believe in education and I had already succumbed to the sounds of Hawkwind and was well on my way to becoming a New-Age Traveler/Urban Squatter!!lol

                If I'm honest as well I still have moments of doubt of whether or not I will stick with it to the end but I try to remain focused like I did in the beginning of my sobriety. If I look too far ahead I know I'm bound to trip myself up and fail so I'm trying to just stay focused on the individual course that will, of course, count towards the final degree.

                Again many thanks

                Love and Happiness
                Hippie
                xx
                "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." Kahlil Gibran
                Clean and sober 25th January 2009

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                  #9
                  Food for the brain!!

                  Hi Hippie, roud:

                  Looks like you have come a long way you set your goals and you go for it...
                  I admire you.... just like to say well done and all the best of luck for the future !
                  You deserve it!

                  Love

                  Teardrop.x
                  family is everything to me

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                    #10
                    Food for the brain!!

                    Congratulations Hippie!!

                    We all have doubts when starting a new path - I am sure that your motivation and drive with help to pull you through the tough times!!

                    Wishing you all the best on this new & exciting chapter.
                    Take care
                    xxx
                    The mind is in its own place, and in itself
                    Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

                    John Milton

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                      #11
                      Food for the brain!!

                      Good luck with it all Hippie ,ive no doubt you will fly to your degree.

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