The System

As I close my eyes and drift away to a land where there is love, health, peace, and blessings. I wanted to take the time to think and reflect.

     When I entered the field of education, I wondered if I would feel out of place, or if I made the right decision. The way to evaluate the decision was to walk the path of the decision. I found that prior learning is never wasted, and that the field of education was not really a new field, because of the years of volunteering in the school system. But there is a difference from volunteering, to the actual getting to know the system from inside-out. We learn that truly education is the root answer to all of the societal problems, if one chooses to embrace all, increase levels of tolerance, and think of experiences as opportunities. But of course we cannot generalize, because everyone who possesses a knowledge of the system will make thier own decisions, about what they have learned, and what they decide to do with what has been learned. 

     So we learn of the social constructions, think of education as the root solution, but then learn how the system is restricted, un-restricted, controlled or managed. We learn of the marginalization that happens within the system, and which students get to be a success or failure. But then when we enter a socially constructed field, such as Psychology, we realize the restrictions that are placed upon trained professionals, and those working within the sector.
We could say that what happens to individuals who seek out the services of psychologists is socially constructed, but how psychologists / researchers respond to serve the service populations should not be a matter dependant on a construction. In other words, the treatment / service of human beings should be viewed as a sacred service. Where one is vulnerable, arrives in a state of neediness, and care. 

   The professionals are no different to the populations in the sense that we are all human beings, but the difference is the training that one receives to enable care of service populations. It is when we think of care, how the care is delivered, from an ethical, duty of care standpoint that one must act with attentiveness. Essentially we learn / know the social constructions, but we have to remember that the mass populations don't create these. They are the ones who suffer the consequences from social constructions. 

My thoughts to share with love & kindness! :) 

​Notes: These thoughts were originally hand-written on September 6th, 2018.
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