<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Being human has its side effects (read the small print)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are the great myths of our age –<br>hiding truth within their all too human stories? <br>In their absence, scientific research<br>has wondrous tales yet to tell…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jon, the renowned professor of psychology<br>and not averse to self-examination and experiment, <br>took Paxil – Prozac’s cousin – for eight<br>adventurous weeks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In week five – ‘the world changed’…<br>his heavy work load, his insecurities<br>as an untenured professor, <br>vanished like magic; changes which he’d wished<br>to make for himself for years, <br>happened overnight – he loosened up, <br>he lightened up, he accepted his mistakes<br>and did not dwell on them –<br>who would not want to be a Prof like he? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But… a side effect: names began to elude him –<br>‘Hi! ’ and ‘Hi there! ’ were all his students got<br>out on campus, in the morning classroom …<br>and along with that, the subterfuges –<br>how can you ask a student whom you’ve known for years<br>to give their opinion… er, point, smile, <br>hope they’re watching.. yes, you…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and facts too started to recede –<br>just out of reach on the top shelf of<br>the mind’s rich library, memory’s repository…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Greek tragedy would have a word, <br>a scene, a moral, for it: <br>the Fates had claimed their own…<br>Nemesis had struck; Icarus’ wings had melted, <br>Prometheus’ insult to the gods avenged…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or in our scientific terms, a brain on Paxil, Prozac, <br>has more serotonin in certain synapses, <br>so the neurons fire more often…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The celebrated young Professor<br>stopped taking the pills; five weeks later, <br>the memory returned; as did the worries<br>(security of tenure threatened even more<br>by Professors who can’t even remember<br>what they profess to profess…) .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, <br>bestowed one gift alone on Prof: <br>he remembered just how he had been those weeks; <br>as certain Greeks, it’s said, <br>remembered like a dream<br>the Golden Age which they never<br>might recapture, but only tell of<br>in myths and suchlike tales<br>of truth and goodness; beauty too..</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459997" data-title="Being human has its side effects (read the small print) de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Where are the great myths of our age – hiding truth within their all too human stories? In their absence, scientific research has wondrous tales yet to tell… Jon, the renowned professor of psychology and not averse to self-examination and ex..."></div> </div> </div>

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