The other day... yesterday, I wasted my therapist's time ambling about general issues. I talked to her about Nepal's history for 20 minutes, related South Asian history to give context for Nepal's history for 20 minutes, spent 5 minutes checking up on how my week had been, and maybe 8 minutes complaining about minor issues that weren't really bothering me but I felt I had to come up with something or else it would be a waste of time. And all this time I kept bringing in the 'oh i'm sure this is going to be relevant to our future conversations, just adding context, you gotta be patient'. In the end, she thanked me for providing historical-cultural-social context of the place I'm from, which made me feel a bit better, buuuut dunno, I doubt it'll prove useful. Oh also told her about this blog, and my new launcher app for the phone hahah, so that's fun.
What is the perfect use of a therapist time, I wonder, and what is the worst possible way to spend it? With Dr. S, we used to talk about Consciousness and linguistics and things of that nature, and with K, who's the new person we haven't gotten to that stage of our relationship yet. They're people too (I like to think) and it's a more interesting experience for them if the conversations were lighter and more intellectually stimulating than what they otherwise might be? Don't know how I would bring Dennett into our conversations, but I gotta figure out a way!
Oh also, we've generally been meeting every 2-3 weeks, but I'm seeing her 6 days after the previous appointment this time around, which means I'll have less to talk about, which maybe opens up the opportunity to talk about these things?
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