Do you ever notice that when you have a schedule for your life, you tend to cross paths with the same people?
I guess every student has a schedule for their life to some extent.
Back in the summer I thought about taking a different route to school everyday just so I could see new things but that never happened and I settled down for consistency (or is it laziness). When I look around I notice I’m not the only one with the consistent flow of life.
For example:
– the same lady on the bus with the thick rims and trench coat
– the guy passing out the Metro
– the man who plays the guitar at the sky train station (his life is more flexible, he’s not always there)
– the 5 siblings walking to school who I always bump into at the same intersection of my route to school
– big guy with Elton John glasses who I always bump into at the other intersection
Do you have these people in your life?
If they suddenly stopped being there, would you be sad?
Sometimes it feels like I’m in the Truman Show… you know the part where he greets his neighbour every morning with the same actions?
I have this expectation that they will be there even if I’m not. It makes the world much less lonely yet I’m sure such an expectation is extremely selfish.
When I grow up, will I still be selfish like this?
Speaking of growing up, I went to Chapters today. COMM 299 talked about how people should build on their strengths because simply fixing our weaknesses will never be enough. What if my strengths aren’t the things I want to be good at? So instead I tried to find my interests and went to every shelf and looked at something there.
I got to the business section I thought “this is grown up stuff, I’ll check it out some other day.” But I’m at Sauder, shouldn’t this be the stuff I want to look into more? The only thing that caught my eye was a book on marketing tactics. Could this be a sign I’m not at the right place?
What’s growing up anyway? University student, parents will always look at their children as kids but shouldn’t I have almost reached that “grown up” stage by now? If I weren’t at school, I’d be working. To me, a full time job is what I’ve always felt is the dividing line between adolescence and adult.
I’m sure most people have those kinds of people in their lives. I know I do. It makes life more interesting and helps you become more aware that you’re not the only one out there (I think).
If your so called “strength” is something you don’t enjoy, I wouldn’t call it a strength. A strength is something you enjoy doing (excluding watching tv and things similar to that :P).
I would think growing up is just having a greater understanding of who you yourself as a person is. Age, jobs, and things such as those shouldn’t be measures of adulthood. Finding yourself is hard. It’s a cliche that you have to go out of your comfort zone, but it’s a cliche because it’s true.
I love this post, Paulina! I definitely know what you mean by the people you pass everyday. In first year I would take the same bus at the same time every M,W,F for both terms with this boy I didn’t know. I recognized him but didn’t ever talk to him. In my 2nd year, when our schedules changed and I didn’t see him around anymore, I missed him – despite knowing nothing about him except the time he took the bus and what his bookbag looked like!
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