Courage

Oh, is this another courage post?

Does it require so much courage to be a researcher?

Hope I'm not scaring you.

But doing research, we push boundaries and transverse frontiers. It's a lot of pioneering work.

And I do get tired. I get tired of reading, as the pile of readings pile up and I find I do not have as much time to slowly understand and synthesize what I have read.

My mind feels like a mess.

I am trying to write a research proposal for my PhD studies but all the thoughts and ideas are jumbled up in my mind and I have no discernment have to proceed forward, how to write.

At the back of my mind are many many different journal articles in various stages of progress, all undone.

Is this the life of a researcher?

It is exhausting.