School Gaits | Ramblings

Originally written on July 18, 2023 I remember the distinctive ways my — classmates walked throughout the school year: —, —, —, among others. — walked with still, angled arms pointing forward and seemingly primed to handle hand-operated, manual tasks, with balanced but plain footsteps, exhibiting greatly reduced intricacy of overall body movement, rotation, and the sequential, rolling wave in which the body tends to move when adopting elegance and gracefulness, and with an openly curious bearing. Her tied, easy-done ponytail hair enhanced this "not taking oneself seriously" practical outward nature. Finally, her periodic untying only when she was relaxed and inactive furthered her demeanor of sincerity. — — — walked with short footsteps despite her cunning in sports, specifically volleyball and running, which would usually imply a more open stance full of suppressed energy. Her gait along with her usually long untied hair exuded an elegance that radiated downwards rather than wavy or back-and-forth or upwards like an introverted priestess poised for saintly activities. She would often brush her hair confidently as she walked, which promoted the sense that her manner of movement exhibited intentionality. Yet, when looking from afar and from her perspective herself, her "downward," reserved manner of elegance would seem like simplicity rather than a poised attack as she would demonstrate while playing sports. When — ran, he often gently balled his hands into fists. His gait was refined in a sports standard sense, as if all personality had been taken only to be replaced with refinement for the sake of sports. His facial expression and the way he lifted his arms while walking were the only identifiers of a personality within. He had his shoulders raised and arms pointed like he was posing for a propaganda poster. His steps were contrastingly reduced to mere inconspicuous fragments by the effort in which he raised his shoulders as if he was standing for a photo following a political life. They have changed much since then, but only in confidence rather than with "outward personality" as well. Their lives were uninterrupted and undisrupted mostly, which made a significant change of the specific subset of the outward personality highly unlikely. This is mostly a gross distortion of the truth, as humans are inherently a byzantine stronghold of inner complexities incredibly difficult to penetrate intellectually. In short, this analysis was a reflection of my subjective experience rather than a 100% accurate understanding of the three students. Supplementing this predictive model into your own model for comprehending specifically this subset of people and people in general would be beneficial. Anyway, this book will continue to exegete the various emotions and affects—among others—of people and even a focus on certain subsets of people, but this brief expository account should be sufficient as a foretaste of the "socio-psychophysiological" delineations.