An Ode to Reunion Tower
I got home yesterday from podunk Alabama (not really podunk, just kind of out of the way. It was about an hour out from Florence.). It was about 5.40 when we reached the edge of Dallas County and by that time I was literally counting seconds until I got home. I'd been in the backseat of a car for 11 hours and read all of the books I had available. It wasn't a good time.
But seeing the skyline of Dallas was the best. I hadn't realized how much I'd missed being in suburbs. I kvetch and moan, but I really do enjoy being so close to Dallas (and Fort Worth, I guess. :/). I've grown up in the same city my entire life, and the only time I moved, was to a different place in aforementioned city. So going to different places in the big cities on the weekends has been a normal occurrence. I get a lot of opportunities to go see the symphony orchestras or to go to an arts festival, see musicals, go to conventions, the like. And I don't think I would change that for anything.
We talk a lot at my school about wishing we were raised in different places, like in the cities themselves, or in smaller towns where everyone knows each other. We fantasize about moving out for college to Austin or Chicago or San Francisco, or maybe going to a university so small and exclusive that no one has heard of the town it's in or maybe not even the university itself. We can't imagine staying in DFW for longer than we have to.
But we know it's the same way for people in cities or small towns. Wanting to get out.
I still want to though. I don't know how many foreign colleges I've looked in to, or how many in other states. I just don't want to be in this place anymore. I'm even starting to think about all the jokes I've made about skipping college for the first year and going to Europe. (I'm mostly kidding. Though I am in the process of picking up French, just in case.)
Oh well, the point is seeing Dallas really proved to me that staying in a suburb my entire life isn't going to work. Going to a small town isn't going to work either, I'm going to have to be smack-dab in a city. Denton is looking less appealing, but at least I'm still by Dallas.... I don't know. Something will happen. It'll be great. Right?