Mid-career crisis?
Yesterday was just another teaching day during the time of the pandemic. Nothing special about the day: I drove to the campus, sanitized hands over and over gain during the 4 hours on campus and drove back immediately after the classes were over. The class material was something that I have liked and used in class for some years. However, the class discussion did not go as satisfactory as I had imagined, and I was burdened with a feeling of exhaustion and disappointment. It is an essay about disillusion about religion. Usually my take on the essay is about the issue of conformity and language and epistemology. The presenter's choice is religion and faith. I think I was too worried that the class discussion would turn into a discussion about theology, and I also implicitly sought to avoid such discussion about religion in a class where most of the participants do not have a faith. I suddenly sounded very awkward and rigid in my instruction on the class discussion, and I also felt ...