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On The Darker Side of Brilliance

FROM
Break Out: Finding Freedom
When You Don't Quite Fit The Mold
James R. Hasse

"We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling."

Carl Jung

"I slumped lower into my seat, trying not to kick my crutches on the floor and draw attention to myself with the "clank" of tubular aluminum against hardwood that would disturb the class.

Professor Brown began reading the paper I had submitted two days before for my Journalism 101 course. He read theIn hindsight, I guess it was an introductory journalism class to sort out those of us with journalistic tendencies (potential) and the others who would do better in the School of Business or Animal Husbandry. first paragraph without commitment, and I quickly prepared myself for the worst.

After all, he was a legend as a reporter for Time magazine. I had already visualized what it must have been like to quickly dictate his story paragraph by paragraph from scribbled notes over a phone from Seoul to New York during the Korean War.

Our assignment had been to write a "slice of life" piece, and I didn't understand why he had picked my paper to read to the class. He hadn't shared the writings of anyone in the class before.

It was a ragtag course the scope of which I still did not fully understand, even though the first six-week exam was getting dangerously close.

In hindsight, I guess it was an introductory journalism class to sort out those of us with journalistic tendencies (potential) and the others who would do better in the School of Business or Animal Husbandry.

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