A different Point of View,... A Few Weeks
I may not have left, but I’m still in a different town then I grew up in… for now anyway.
Driving down the strangely familiar roads back to the second life of ours… how about this… what if you stayed, but everything left you? Unfortunately for a few of us this is a few weeks… the campus parking lots will be emptied slowly at first, but day by day the cars will go. The Wayside’s parties will convert over to townies… smaller and not as fun… Burger King will bring back the 99 cent menu, lowering its prices… The party houses on Main Street will turn into a ghost town, the apartments in Jamestown, Tall Grass, and Deerfield will empty again… fraternity house will have no more then three cars in the drive way, I don’t know why but that the summer “rule”.
The people you’ve come to know and love will seem more like just a dream. A phone call from an old recognizable voice will put a smile on your face. They say ‘I miss you’ but also that they’re not coming home. They’ve decide to stay in Florida, engaged soon to be wed, or that they are staying with the surf in LA, or that they are coming ‘home’ but wont be able to see you for a bit since work and shit… they want to relive the times in high school, the stupid summer jobs and jokes, and they want to remember those close friends the moved away, or even worst passed away… and you realize that you really are stuck in this land of “frozen and forgotten memories” seemingly alone. You still have your family but after being ‘away’ from them for so long its hard to ‘move’ back to a bigger bed, a long hallway, living room, and maybe a fireplace… lets not forget the parents rules they will be hard to live under once again. And as all this is happening you realize that things are seemingly passing you by, as you stand still you try to reach out and desperately grab hold to as much of it as you can… you hold it tight, but the tighter you hold the looser it gets and it floats away with the rest of the past year.
Then the worst hits HIGH SCHOOL kids, with their mommy’s and daddy’s cars trying to look cool driving around an empty campus, pretending they are in college… but only the only people to take note is each other. Weeks later the campus is bombarded once again and yes by high school and middle school kids… its summer camps. And God, are these kids are annoying thinking that they are so hot ‘cause they are here on campus. Sorry buddy, college is a blast, classes suck BUT you’re not in it yet. So don’t act like you are it’s a joke. As for the rest for the summer… well I’ll be so lucky as to see anyone from an amazing first year of college… we’re gunna miss each other a lot well most of ya’ll anyway (ha, ha, ha, ha joking! oh well)
See you don’t see it, you really can’t… when you all leave you take college life with you, each of you carry little peaces with you. Even the stranger that you don’t know, ‘cause with out them college isn’t the same, its not here. Actually College, is a state of mind, not the classes and what not but what college is to all of us, you can only have it, and it can only be created when you have so many people, college students, US, when were together with a common mind set; enjoy our time together, we only have 4 years,… unless your going into basically everything then you have 5, or if your a Van Wilder,… 7 years,… hey that sounds good to me,… but then again I don’t really wanna be 27 and still in college,… ANYWAY… college isn’t something you leave behind, I hope you understand this. It’s in those boxes you’ve packed, mostly it’s you. And for the most part those of us who are stuck here, its going to be the hardest thing in the world to say good bye to you, watch you walk way, and then realizing ‘I’m still here’. You’re gone, and you’re going to miss the Pub, Wayside, Dorms, frat parties, for some of us Greek Week, all the new friends, and the new family you’ve just joined. The late night fun and drunken times in Little Chef, or where ever you passed out at, you can miss those places. You, WE, have these memories, but I’m still here watching these ‘empty’ shelves where our memories are taken at… I wish you would come home soon to fill these shelves again. That’s going to be hard, ‘you know it’ and ‘not gunna lie’… so what do I do? While I’m still here? The only thing that I really can do, essentially wait for you to return. Yes we will call, email, and hopefully visit too, but not until all for you have returned will college life ever come back to the happy place it is with you here.
But hey, we still have time, we’ve got this week! And the next...
oh, but exams… Parties… studying… Weekends… only one left…
maybe there’s not quite enough time for all we want.
I like to live in the moment, do all that I can with the time I have at hand…
that was a hard lesson for me to learn…
See Kelli did just that, she lived her life to the moment… thank God she did… cause our Jr. year of high school, with only two exams left she was killed in a car accident…
So Kelli, thank you, for all that you did for me, and all you have taught me. I’ll never forget.
So enjoy our times.
Enjoy our lives.
Make memories.
Come back soon to see me.
Enjoy your breaks ya’ll, don’t have too much fun with out me. I’ll call you, you better call me! I love ya’ll.
Love Jesus.
Driving down the strangely familiar roads back to the second life of ours… how about this… what if you stayed, but everything left you? Unfortunately for a few of us this is a few weeks… the campus parking lots will be emptied slowly at first, but day by day the cars will go. The Wayside’s parties will convert over to townies… smaller and not as fun… Burger King will bring back the 99 cent menu, lowering its prices… The party houses on Main Street will turn into a ghost town, the apartments in Jamestown, Tall Grass, and Deerfield will empty again… fraternity house will have no more then three cars in the drive way, I don’t know why but that the summer “rule”.
The people you’ve come to know and love will seem more like just a dream. A phone call from an old recognizable voice will put a smile on your face. They say ‘I miss you’ but also that they’re not coming home. They’ve decide to stay in Florida, engaged soon to be wed, or that they are staying with the surf in LA, or that they are coming ‘home’ but wont be able to see you for a bit since work and shit… they want to relive the times in high school, the stupid summer jobs and jokes, and they want to remember those close friends the moved away, or even worst passed away… and you realize that you really are stuck in this land of “frozen and forgotten memories” seemingly alone. You still have your family but after being ‘away’ from them for so long its hard to ‘move’ back to a bigger bed, a long hallway, living room, and maybe a fireplace… lets not forget the parents rules they will be hard to live under once again. And as all this is happening you realize that things are seemingly passing you by, as you stand still you try to reach out and desperately grab hold to as much of it as you can… you hold it tight, but the tighter you hold the looser it gets and it floats away with the rest of the past year.
Then the worst hits HIGH SCHOOL kids, with their mommy’s and daddy’s cars trying to look cool driving around an empty campus, pretending they are in college… but only the only people to take note is each other. Weeks later the campus is bombarded once again and yes by high school and middle school kids… its summer camps. And God, are these kids are annoying thinking that they are so hot ‘cause they are here on campus. Sorry buddy, college is a blast, classes suck BUT you’re not in it yet. So don’t act like you are it’s a joke. As for the rest for the summer… well I’ll be so lucky as to see anyone from an amazing first year of college… we’re gunna miss each other a lot well most of ya’ll anyway (ha, ha, ha, ha joking! oh well)
See you don’t see it, you really can’t… when you all leave you take college life with you, each of you carry little peaces with you. Even the stranger that you don’t know, ‘cause with out them college isn’t the same, its not here. Actually College, is a state of mind, not the classes and what not but what college is to all of us, you can only have it, and it can only be created when you have so many people, college students, US, when were together with a common mind set; enjoy our time together, we only have 4 years,… unless your going into basically everything then you have 5, or if your a Van Wilder,… 7 years,… hey that sounds good to me,… but then again I don’t really wanna be 27 and still in college,… ANYWAY… college isn’t something you leave behind, I hope you understand this. It’s in those boxes you’ve packed, mostly it’s you. And for the most part those of us who are stuck here, its going to be the hardest thing in the world to say good bye to you, watch you walk way, and then realizing ‘I’m still here’. You’re gone, and you’re going to miss the Pub, Wayside, Dorms, frat parties, for some of us Greek Week, all the new friends, and the new family you’ve just joined. The late night fun and drunken times in Little Chef, or where ever you passed out at, you can miss those places. You, WE, have these memories, but I’m still here watching these ‘empty’ shelves where our memories are taken at… I wish you would come home soon to fill these shelves again. That’s going to be hard, ‘you know it’ and ‘not gunna lie’… so what do I do? While I’m still here? The only thing that I really can do, essentially wait for you to return. Yes we will call, email, and hopefully visit too, but not until all for you have returned will college life ever come back to the happy place it is with you here.
But hey, we still have time, we’ve got this week! And the next...
oh, but exams… Parties… studying… Weekends… only one left…
maybe there’s not quite enough time for all we want.
I like to live in the moment, do all that I can with the time I have at hand…
that was a hard lesson for me to learn…
See Kelli did just that, she lived her life to the moment… thank God she did… cause our Jr. year of high school, with only two exams left she was killed in a car accident…
So Kelli, thank you, for all that you did for me, and all you have taught me. I’ll never forget.
So enjoy our times.
Enjoy our lives.
Make memories.
Come back soon to see me.
Enjoy your breaks ya’ll, don’t have too much fun with out me. I’ll call you, you better call me! I love ya’ll.
Love Jesus.