Being a CA, I get to know a lot of people, myself included. And you know those little life lessons that you can hear over and over again, but don't actually get until you experience it? I've had a couple of those recently. So here's the cliche (when I figure out how to use the accent, I will): everyone has their story.
Person A is a young woman, in love with her boyfriend. He's an older grad student, she's a hardworking junior. They met in Europe thanks to Study Abroad. They maintain a long-distance relationship through nightly hour-and-a-half long phone calls and manage to see each other a couple times a month. The boyfriend has just asked Person A to 1) move to California for the summer, get a job, and live there with him, and 2) Transfer cross-country to a school closer to him. It sounds like a lot, but Person A is starry-eyed and flattered. And she can't sleep - she's been trying for the past hour. She has an 8am class tomorrow.
Person B is a young man who works too much. He spent his academic life with the biological sciences, eventually making it out with his degree. He had a steady girlfriend for nearly three years, someone he cared about more than he thought possible. He got a job, not the best job, not the most sophisticated, and maybe not the most promising - but he does it well. His girlfriend left him for reasons truly known only to her, and he worked. He has a new girlfriend now, one who loves him the way he loved the one before her- problem is the feeling isn't mutual. She's stuck on him, and he's stuck with her - who knows if he'll ever be able to hurt her enough to do the right thing.
Person C lost her virginity recently. She's the type of person who likes to be in control of her life, and doesn't take most decisions lightly. She considers herself principled and clear-headed. But then she thought she was late, and for the first time in her life she was terrified she had screwed up too badly to ever recover from, and that this time she wouldn't be the only one paying for her mistake. Nothing came of it, but she'll never look at things the same way again. At a point in her life where every opportunity for greatness was there for the taking, she started to get a glimmering of the immense complexity of decisions, opportunities, things taken for granted, principles, love, responsibility.
C'est la vie I guess....nothing's simple, in fact sometimes it's hard as shit. The hard kind of shit, not the softer varieties. Just try not to take anything for granted, remember that everyone has a story, and count your blessings. Really, life is good.
Person A is a young woman, in love with her boyfriend. He's an older grad student, she's a hardworking junior. They met in Europe thanks to Study Abroad. They maintain a long-distance relationship through nightly hour-and-a-half long phone calls and manage to see each other a couple times a month. The boyfriend has just asked Person A to 1) move to California for the summer, get a job, and live there with him, and 2) Transfer cross-country to a school closer to him. It sounds like a lot, but Person A is starry-eyed and flattered. And she can't sleep - she's been trying for the past hour. She has an 8am class tomorrow.
Person B is a young man who works too much. He spent his academic life with the biological sciences, eventually making it out with his degree. He had a steady girlfriend for nearly three years, someone he cared about more than he thought possible. He got a job, not the best job, not the most sophisticated, and maybe not the most promising - but he does it well. His girlfriend left him for reasons truly known only to her, and he worked. He has a new girlfriend now, one who loves him the way he loved the one before her- problem is the feeling isn't mutual. She's stuck on him, and he's stuck with her - who knows if he'll ever be able to hurt her enough to do the right thing.
Person C lost her virginity recently. She's the type of person who likes to be in control of her life, and doesn't take most decisions lightly. She considers herself principled and clear-headed. But then she thought she was late, and for the first time in her life she was terrified she had screwed up too badly to ever recover from, and that this time she wouldn't be the only one paying for her mistake. Nothing came of it, but she'll never look at things the same way again. At a point in her life where every opportunity for greatness was there for the taking, she started to get a glimmering of the immense complexity of decisions, opportunities, things taken for granted, principles, love, responsibility.
C'est la vie I guess....nothing's simple, in fact sometimes it's hard as shit. The hard kind of shit, not the softer varieties. Just try not to take anything for granted, remember that everyone has a story, and count your blessings. Really, life is good.
posted by Laura at 1:08:00 AM
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