What a journey! I was saying to a friend of mine, that the word that comes to mind for this phase of my life is, Catharsis. I've just googled it now. It is defined as the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. It's been a roller coaster ride, and I felt it more this year. I felt all that is meant to be felt when doing postgraduate studies. And as part of that, I still had to be a daughter, a sister, a mother, a wife, a brethren, a neighbour, a colleague, an employee Yho! My head is about to explode... The good news is, I did it! I managed to press send, by forwarding my complete draft to my supervisor, my editor and my critical reader. I have about 2 months left to submit, but I am confident that my thesis can be seen by the world. I googled examples of what one can do to celebrate the PhD completion and got quite a few exciting things to do. The one entry even mentions that the the completion happens in stages, yes it does, I feel sending to the editor in August was the first bold step of letting go. And now this act of sending to these trusted people in my corner is another bold step. The next will be getting the link from the Research office and Graduate Studies and then the feedback from examiners. I can not wait, now those deserve proper celebrations!
It is a lonely journey and at times it feels like people do not understand or will not understand what you are going through, so you don't even bother telling them, but guess what it is a village journey, I would not have done it without the help of so many people in my corner. I am not good with asking for help, but amazingly when I would hint towards help, yho I would get overwhelming responses, it has been amazing. I hope to be more active on this blog and to ultimately publish it, maybe there's someone out there who needs to feel that they are not alone on this journey, and that they too, can make it through ;-)
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