I have a friend who recently dropped out of a grad school he had been wanting to attend for years, and which I thought he was a perfect match for.  It was a program in somatic therapy, and he is a person who is naturally in tune with himself and always expressing himself through movement and dance.  When he told me he was dropping out, I couldn’t believe it - it was like The Flash quitting the track team.  We got to talking, and he told me the reason he was leaving the program was that it was too hard.  He said he loved the focus on dance and movement therapy, but that the pressure to turn inwritten papers every couple weeks was just too much.  He wondered what was even the point of all this writing when the focus should have been on somatic awareness, and he left...