One thing I miss about college.

Jan 15, 2008 15:43

Or one time period, I guess I should say, is sophomore year. It's when I started to really come into my own, when my friendships with Lauren, Cat, and Randy were strongest, when smoking was still fresh and unpredictable, when I'd grown accustomed enough to the environment around me to feel in-control, but still found newness and excitement whenever ( Read more... )

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dyachei January 16 2008, 01:05:37 UTC
It is amazing that growth happens, isn't it? When you least expect it, *BAM* you've grown up a little. I'm sorry you're feeling nostalgic. Depending on when I'm around, we can have another sober conversation, if you want...

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goldsfool January 16 2008, 18:55:09 UTC
I don't know what to say other than to express my regrets that I wasn't involved in your happiest moments, because you were certainly involved in many of mine, but I guess that's life, huh? I guess I'm just a weirdo you met along the way on your grand trail hike toward great and notable accomplishment. Not that I'm not proud of you but when I think of how much you mean to me and compare it with how much I must mean to you, getting about one email every half year now, my imaginary scale tips over. But that is so very selfish. I should be visiting you, shouldn't? God would I want to visit you. I guess in the unselfish goggles, it just looks like we are both dealing with the things in our lives with which we ought to be dealing. I need to spend my money on recording music right now, and you need to spend money on other things, so neither of us can visit. So we are pen pals, and we may never see each other for years, and that is heartbreaking to me and you too, I'm sure, but it's just life and we're just caught up in diverging swirls of ( ... )

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randyslaven January 17 2008, 00:15:34 UTC
While there were nice bits of college, such as some of the friends that I had, I wouldn't go back in a second, and I'm pretty damn sure that the Randy I was in college would prefer the future version's life a bit more. I will never miss the uncertainty of the real world, which always loomed in the background. I will never miss the ever-present fear that I may be as incompetent as my father always made me feel. It's also great not to have to worry about money, or to worry that I'm under someone's thumb or (and I guess this only temporally related to college) be in a relationship that makes me wish I were dead most every day for over a year.

I'm glad you're happy as well.

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