my infatuation with the human mind.

The human mind is an endless labyrinth of thoughts, ideas, and feelings which will never cease to amaze me. It is incredible to me how a brain can provoke so many different feelings ranging from exuberance to depression. My infatuation with the dynamics of the human mind first started last year in my Spanish class. We had been assigned a Mexican artist to research, and my artist was Frida Kahlo. I was a little uninterested at first because I felt as though it was just going to be another typical research assignment. But, as I began to investigate Kahlo’s life, I had discovered how her state of mind had driven her to create such incredible paintings. Kahlo had gotten into a terrible bus collision which resulted in her inability to have children. Through her paintings she was able to convey her pain which sometimes came across as abstract and enigmatic. I was bewildered by how Kahlo used various symbols to express her state of infertility and how her works could imbue her emotions into my soul. It was so strange that this eccentric artist turned out to be culpable for motivating me to aspire to be a psychologist in the future. I now want to be able to understand what goes through the minds of human beings and how emotions are created and why people feel love and hatred and sadness. I want to be the one to help someone someday so they can feel as though they can understand themselves and not by destroyed by their internal thoughts.