Well howdy there, all. I, Anna, cordially welcome you to the first post on this here blog. Today marks the creation of an online extension of my nearly-18 year old self. In my life thus far, I break things down too much, searching for the logic and reasoned evidence at the bottom of every issue. This means that I often lose sight of the bigger themes inherent in many current topics. Therefore, this blog is an attempted antidote for my over-empiricism; as I explore (hopefully) relevant topics, I’ll try to use an analytic approach that draws heavily from knowledge and experience with interpersonal relationships and human interactions. Basically, I’ll draw on what I know about why people do the things they do to other people, on multiple levels. And what I find might not make sense to me logically, which may just mean I’m going about it the right way. Nothing throws a science girl out of her element like making her analyze human behavior, which is about as unpredictable as it gets. I'm taking myself out of the micro world and going macro.
Apart from being logical thinker, I'm often influenced by music, which is one of few grasps I have on the world of emotion and feeling-driven thought, neither of which are easy for me to explain. Music is the one part of my life I don't worry about not understanding, and since its spirit can be related to human actions and relationships in a visceral sense, you might find music references here and there throughout my blogging journey.
Something to get excited about is the variety of topics I can cover under the umbrella of human interaction and relationships: I can span anything from major historical wars to pop culture; I can talk about the DSK scandal in France and the genocide in Darfur, Harry Potter, reality TV, and just about anything else that tickles my fancy. I hope that I can bring a viewpoint of informed youth, and also to prove that teenagers these days do have original thoughts and novel ideas. I am not in any way an expert on the psychology of human relations, therefore, the perspective I bring will be one of pure observation; I don’t really know if there’s an official term for something I’m describing, so forgive me my psychology transgressions. I'll probably become best friends with the APA's Glossary of Psychological Terms.
Overall, I’m really excited for this blog because it’s a very freeing feeling, being unrestricted in thought, and hopefully this feeling will carry over through the rest of the year (and maybe even longer).
Thanks for reading!
