PhD magic
PhD is a journey that in my opinion only the word magic can explain it.
Things just happen, without knowing exactly why, when and where. It becomes. The combination of an action thinking with living and all sorts of other stuff that happen in between these two compose the PhD thing.
It is just another type of research, as we do research in all other faculties of life. I research to know which is the best mobile phone i should by to fulfil my needs, where I want to go in my next vacation, what ingredients are the healthiest, what is it that I feel before my periods and how does it affect my life... researches one does all the time.
The doctorate research is just another one. It needs life in the middle so it can be completed in most creative and unique way. Only my life will give the research it's single character.
This is the second academic research that I engage with in life and I notice that things just happen. Too many unpredictable directions are taken due to life types of issues that go along the investigation. On the end of the first one I suddenly noticed that I had no clue of how I managed to get where I got. It's like, we take so many turns because of things that come up on the way that in the end we don't know if it was a rock or a river or a snake that made me get where I got.
All of this magic thinking arouse today during my research in the Laban Archive. While researching for the Living Architecture module for the Choreological Studies Specialist Diploma, I suddenly realized I was both investigating for the module and for my PhD as a whole. I was astonished to realize how one thing is conducting the other and that at a certain point I might not even recognize how or why I chose the path I followed...
Magic!