Prose 16 : A Gradual Process Of Shifting
A Gradual Process Of Shifting - T ABRAHAM
Whenever we want to move from our current position to our desired position or destination we make some efforts and also some adjustments are required to be made from our side when we are moving. 'Reaching' one's destination is something that always makes us travel in a road which we might have thought or would have never thought about. The progress is something that indicates a tendency of moving but not yet reached the point which commands one to pause or stop. There are shifts in terms of a physical locale and also shifts in one's mind and career paths. We are here to ponder upon the shift in one's mind that leads one to his dream career path.
The change in a small scale is something that is quite easy to cope up with and one's mind gets used to it when one starts accepting it. The changes in time schedule or minor food menu changes can be accommodated by one's mind but these are something which happens everyday. So, the thing I am trying to emphasise here is the change one makes in one's career, which is quite a major change. Here, I am going share my shifting process from a purely a science background shifting into the humanities stream.
So, we all know that science is something that deals with a lots of facts or it is something that is filled with a lot of things to memorise and does not have much to do with creative thinking and writing. For someone who has tried to excel in science and have a burning desire towards the life sciences, it is something more than just studying these facts but also to memorise the specimens and also to memorise by drawing. I felt that biology creates artists whose art demands quite some perfection to identify certain elements in their drawings and it just needs one drawing with clear distinctions amongst the intricate details present within something.
You can see that I am emphasising upon the term 'memorise' or 'memorising' and this frequent usage of this term by me indicates that I memorised a lot but many a times I failed to memorise some. The content needs to be limited and should be presented in neat bullet points and one should not present the audience with the information which can be elaborated upon but it should not be done. The only thing which I heard after my paper getting evaluated is that 'I write a lot' or 'more information is present rather than what is required'. These remarks always triggers the spark of anger as I am used to write as I wish and like but presenting the error free information.
Even though I love the theory of life sciences, the practical aspect always disgusted me and I usually don't get the desired results and it always varies from the fixed results which has to be presented. When I saw all these during my 12th grade in the year 2022 I have decided I am not going to continue any longer in science and I want to be myself in my answer scripts rather than memorising things and presenting it. So, I did not wanted to apply for any of the science courses available even though I was eligible to apply and can make it into the institution with pure merit criterion.
The next thing was to move into humanities stream, but how to move? and where to start from? were the questions. It is also a fact that it is hard to convince your family members about switching from science to humanities and it is tough when you are totally eligible for all the science programs. So, humanities is something that has a lot to do with creativity and it should be useful for the one who pursues it rather than filling our wallets after completion of the program. When I was searching for the starting point I got to know about how communication and command over reading and writing are very essential for humanities and how one has to develop in these spheres to survive in this stream. So, I was making a gradual shift with the help of B.A in English Language and Literature program which would help me to get a rudimentary knowledge about humanities by displaying the broad array of all divisions present inside this stream.
The difficulties that I faced during this were many in number but I would like to point down a few. Firstly, the shift in the format of writing from bullet points to paragraph answers which needs a lots and lots of information inside your mind. Then, to inculcate the habit of reading rather than studying to memorise. Then, when it comes to creative content creation it needs a lot of creative content in turn to be given to us to create our own content soon. The shift was really a slow process and it took around two years for me to fully understand how to deal with this particular stream which does not demand one to stress upon it. Hence, switching between streams is not difficult but rather getting used to it and the time consumed in this process is something very significant.
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