Showing posts with label fight or flight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fight or flight. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Sensations

In Anatomy today, we watched a video on our skin, our brain, our sense of touch, and our nervous system and it's crazy how these all connect. Did you know that when you suffer a major injury, your brain shuts down your sensation to feel pain? You brain can actually halt these signals if your body knows that these signals can interfere with your survival. This one lady lost in the wild did not feel the pain of a splintered knee until the rescue crew found her. This one dentist gave a root canal to a guy without anesthetics, using mind tricks. If you can somehow harness that energy in the right place, you can shut out pain for a while.

I tried to do it for my hunger pain today, and it worked for a few minutes! I swear I actually stopped feeling my stomach constantly nagging me just by thinking intensely about it. And maybe if I try hard enough, I can do the same with my math grade... make my brain numb so I longer feel the stinging pain of it lol.

I am starting to despise math even more, especially since I cannot handle failure. My grade is steadily decreasing and that is really worrying me. From now on, my junior year will be devoted to passing Calc AB with an A. If that means I'm staying everyday afterschool, going early in the mornings, and going to the Saturday study sessions, then so be it. I don't think I've ever had a math class this challenging, but I think that's exactly what I need.

Lots of homecoming talk already, but isn't it in like.. a WHOLE MONTH? Silly high school kids :)

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Habitual response

I tend to run away from people and from situations. I practice avoidance daily, pretty much. Probably not a good idea, especially since I run away from things because of a temporary fear or hesitation and I end up regretting it later.

1. There is never a day that goes by where I regret doing what I did to you, no matter how hard you took it. You are a rude, annoying, and cruel person.
2. Plaid looks good on you, but I can't look.
3. Daaang, I really can't resist. Unfortunately, responsibilities and friendships are holding me back.
4. I don't know why I feel a certain way, you are totally weird and completely different from 'my type'. And yet, I am kinda interested.
5. I can't seem to understand you! Especially how you got where you are cause I honestly don't see anything special about you.

And like always, these are things I that I hope you don't ask me about. Please don't try to guess either, you probably have no idea.