"Courage utterly opposes the bold hope that this is such fine stuff the work needs it, or the world. Courage, exhausted, stands on bare reality: this writing weakens the work. You must demolish the work and start over. You can save some of the sentences, like bricks. It will be a miracle if you can save some of the paragraphs, no matter how excellent in themselves or hard-won. You can waste a year worrying about it, or you can get it over with now." - Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, page 4.
Today, I am going back to the classroom. I'm going to test some of the hypothesis that I have. I am willing to allow the teacher to change my mind of how I see him. I am willing to rewrite my thesis to make it more "truthful" and "thorough" upon new evidence. :)
Research is also courage. When you've been thinking about something the whole day but you have no solution and you have to abandon the process for another day or another time and leave it hanging there, because there are other things to do and worry about. It's letting go. Letting go takes courage.
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