First and foremost, this blog is for myself. I've no other reason for writing it than self improvement. The idea of doing it as a blog is to encourage me to write; having a writing space where I can essentially store my thoughts and reflections is a key starting point to getting it flowing. Simply having the space will encourage me to write by allowing me to feel like there is a special place where these things can all go. If anyone reads this, and I've no reason to believe they will, anything they get from it is unimportant to me.
This has been coming for a while. I've done some reading and research and the result of that research is that one of the most effective ways to resolve issues is to write them down; studies have shown it's actually far more effective than talking about things with a close friend. This seems counter-intuitive but it's actually not. Why? Words in your head are transient and lacking clarity but because writing things down is, essentially, 'permanent', you can go back over it and more-or-less debate with yourself in ways that thinking alone don't quite allow. Talking with friends doesn't help because you're getting their point of view, not yours, and it is your point of view that matters when resolving internal conflict and/or problems.
The name of this blog is an attempt at visualising what I will be writing about. It is a fact that memories are reconstructed; it's not like a photo or video of an event, it's a number of key features that are recalled and formed together to reproduce the scene. Some people are better at it than others, those with so-called eidetic memory are meant to be able to recall an image, for example, as if they were currently looking at it. However, for most of us, these images are very unclear and we can sort of remember what they look like and pick out a few key details - this lack of clarity I compare to ripples upon a pond. Reflections refers to both the analysis of recalled events [self reflection] and also the perception of current events.
Hence Rippled Reflections represents the way we we poorly recall and interpret events.
