the 'reason why' conundrum

WHY I DO THIS: The researchers concluded that students who can attribute their work to an external reward stop working in the absence of that reward, while those who are forced to attribute their work to intrinsic motivation came to find the task genuinely enjoyable.


Why i am afraid of success: Jill the painter feels dissonance because she is friends with a master painter - Jill can either care less about painting, or justify her inferiority in some other way)

MARSHA

And as she spreads her wings, the clouds part like the curtains of a smile, and the warmth of the god we all yearn to detach from mumbles true ecstatic findings binding all of our collective will to the passionate cries of a peaceful future.

and the lowly peasants on the ground are humbled in awe, their goosebumps rippling for miles, stretching like the arms of love across fields and deserts, sandstorms and snowflakes.

And did I ever really know you? The orchestral climax lives on in my head.  Did I ever really see you? I know I lived for a while in your bed.  But somehow you opened an eye inside of me that blinked and fawned and wilted and closed. and now, sewn shut, it is trapped forever under the deep protection of the night.