therealljidol - week 9 - topic: unprepared.

[changed_4good]

If you were to look back in my LJ, about... oh.... three years and a couple of months, you would find some VERY exciting entries. Almost all of them would be excited about one thing. See.. after twenty one years (and about three days, but hey, who was counting?) I would FINALLY be moving out of my parents house. Now, this is a big deal for

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[walkertxkitty]

I was an hour away and had a similar reaction. I went home every weekend and on school breaks (for the kids, not the college students) I even dragged my sister up to spend time with me so I wouldn't be alone.

Well written!

[changed_4good]

Thanks!

[lilmissmagic71]

A great read... glad you survived the ROOMMATE! ack!

[changed_4good]

Hahaha, thank you so much.

[brightflashes]

This is very well written. I love that line at the end, the difference between wanting something vs being ready for that some something.

I love the way you took the topic to do some self examination (though I'm sure you had already figured this out about yourself) and also include a life story that I think a lot of people can relate to. Well done! : )

[changed_4good]

Thanks so much. :)

[puppetmaker40]

I have three step daughters and I have seen the old two (now 28 and 23) off to college and no matter what I could try to teach them, they discovered that they were unprepared for life outside the house. I have another about to go off to college and I know that she is going to discover how much of life we have have been taking care of for her without her knowing about it.

This is very well written and I could relate to it very well both as the parent and the student. And I think you raise some very good points about being unprepared for what you think you want when you get it.

Bravo

[changed_4good]

Thanks so much - yeah, to be honest, I think my parents expected it too. But, they still seem to expect it - I went to New York for a couple weeks last summer and I think they were surprised that there was no wanting to come home then! ;)

[xo_kizzy_xo]

My freshman year I shared a house with 5 evangelical Christians who decided to make me their project because I was a *GASP* heathen because I *GASP* didn't attend church and *GASP* everything I did or said was heathen because *GASP* I wasn't like them! It took me awhile to figure out how to separate the religious from they as people -- one of them eventually became one of my closest friends.

Needless to say, I never had roommates after that year. I was too scared -- what if I got Zombie Roommate? Or someone like yours? EEEK!

[changed_4good]

Hahaha! That must have been difficult for awhile there. Yeah.. I don't think I could ever do the roommate thing again either.