Crazy Professor

I had a professor at Cal State Hayward, now which is Cal State East Bay to which they changed their name in an effort to attract more of the international crowd, who used to insist that our emotions caused weather patterns.



Yes, it has been some years, as you would know if you knew the original name of the college, but I promise you this professors theories sounded just as hair brained then, as they did now. However, I can see how human emotions pull a strong correlation to the weather and natural disasters. Perhaps when we see Japan falling under siege to a Tsunami, it puts us on alert for those emotions and we then play those out in our lives. So when nuclear disaster is pending on the outskirts, we turn to our relationships and act as if the same type of meltdowns are going to occur.

I have done no research, and I have not even fully thought though my own theories on the subject, but suddenly in taking stalk of my own experiences, this professor doesn't seem like such a half wit to at least recognize a correlation as he once did.



Here is Jersey, the seas are calm and Tsunami free, but destruction of friendship and marriages, neighbors and family seem to be hitting the shores under the destruction of stress, economy, gossip, love lost and poor decisions. Even the best intentions are under scrutiny as no one is safe and everyone is seeming to feel alone on an island. Someone needs to pour water on all our emotional nuclear reactors.

It's pretty unlike me, the budding professional school counselor to pass along a sentimate such as this, but here is goes... So what!
Someone mentioned my name in conversation... so what! At least your husband didn't leave you. You got your feelings hurt, so what? At least you still have all your arms and legs and you aren't physically hurt. Seriously people, even if you don't want to step back and take a look at the bigger picture out across the sea, step back and look at the smaller one. Trust your friends and neighbors to know that they love you and have the best of intentions.

I cannot go around in this world thinking that people are anything other than good by nature. I cannot go around being wary of the million people who would help me in a heart beat, because one person might not. At the same time I no longer will let the feelings of other people count more than my own. As long as I am doing my best to be the best, and I believe the same of my friends, family and even aquaintences, all the rest falls into the abyss of so what! You were right professor, we create more than we account for ourselves.

Forgive and do yourself the favor to forget.

There are so many other things in life that will spin up into a Tsunami all on their own, let's not add to it by making our own tornadoes.