"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
-St. Augustine
Bubble living
Being in a bubble can have it's perks. The bubble usually happens in Christian communities which is what I am living in here at school.
I chose this school because of the bubble. Most people's excuse for not wanting to be here is that they didn't know what they were getting into when they signed up, but not I. I knew exactly what I was signing up for; safety, community, and apparent high standards/expectations. In the beginning it was what I needed, structure, and rules and people to tell me how to live my life and what is right and what is wrong. My freshman and sophomore years it was great to have that. It taught me some discipline, but let's be honest, I have been "disciplining" myself to do what the people who influence me thought was right. In high school I didn't swear and I didn't drink and I thought they were both signs of not being "on the right path", which in high school can be the truth. As I've gotten older though I've come to see that things are not always black and white. What I needed five years ago, even six months ago, is not what I need now.
This summer living on my own really grew me and matured me. I didn't even realize it until I got back to school and what reunited with everyone who was gone for the summer. I have outgrown friendships, I feel like while I matured this summer others stayed in the same place, or even slid backward. So some of those friendships that I depended on last year, I don't need or even necessarily want anymore.
Being in the bubble was good. But it's not what I need now. I am ready to leave it and be independent and I am become frustrated with not being as free as I could be. Over the past week or so I have gone through some stuff that really made me feel restrained. This school has a lot of good things and there are a lot of things that it provides to people that are just what they need, but I don't need it anymore and I'm ready to move on.
*This was written over two days, sorry if it doesn't make complete sense.
I chose this school because of the bubble. Most people's excuse for not wanting to be here is that they didn't know what they were getting into when they signed up, but not I. I knew exactly what I was signing up for; safety, community, and apparent high standards/expectations. In the beginning it was what I needed, structure, and rules and people to tell me how to live my life and what is right and what is wrong. My freshman and sophomore years it was great to have that. It taught me some discipline, but let's be honest, I have been "disciplining" myself to do what the people who influence me thought was right. In high school I didn't swear and I didn't drink and I thought they were both signs of not being "on the right path", which in high school can be the truth. As I've gotten older though I've come to see that things are not always black and white. What I needed five years ago, even six months ago, is not what I need now.
This summer living on my own really grew me and matured me. I didn't even realize it until I got back to school and what reunited with everyone who was gone for the summer. I have outgrown friendships, I feel like while I matured this summer others stayed in the same place, or even slid backward. So some of those friendships that I depended on last year, I don't need or even necessarily want anymore.
Being in the bubble was good. But it's not what I need now. I am ready to leave it and be independent and I am become frustrated with not being as free as I could be. Over the past week or so I have gone through some stuff that really made me feel restrained. This school has a lot of good things and there are a lot of things that it provides to people that are just what they need, but I don't need it anymore and I'm ready to move on.
*This was written over two days, sorry if it doesn't make complete sense.
A story Sam wrote me
Once upon a time there was a girl named Sadie, now this was no ordinary girl she was sent back in time to the 70's because she had a mission. Some said she was too much for this modern era, she had the fight and spirit in her that matched the brave men that overcame Napolean at Waterloo. Others said she just had too much spunk like a wild donkey....who was right we will never know all that was agreed upon was her righteous mission....she had to smother the gangs of the 70s who also went back in time to create the ultimate drug the purple pickle....this drug destroyed the time line. People in the 70s lost all flair for color weird outfits awesome music and most of all that bit of joy that 70s show brought us if you saw that 70s show with the people on the purple pickle instead of weed you would have compared it to a old folks home for dying animals....tragic...so with her fighting spirit and spunk and army of helpful donkeys sadie took charge and battled these evil gangs in the streets of paris....after a long and hefty fight her donkeys and all the enemy save one was gone....she climbed the eiffel tower and there did battle with him...after three hours of mortal combat she realized her ways could not overcome the boringness of the purple pickle so she did what any 70s person would....she lit the weed....the weed smoke drifted up the nostrils of the head gang man and it made a chemical reaction that gave me the feeling of life color and 70s spirit we know today....sadie saved the 70s thus saving the live free love and peace spirit we all love to laugh at today
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