Orientation has gone well so far, I think. Riding from Oglethorpe to the World of Coke museum where Coke hosted the freshman class party, I couldn’t help but remember all the events of Orientation past. It occurred to me while I was glancing down memory lane that I should live in the present instead of the past; however, I decided that I like looking at the past and that I was going to think about it because I wanted to. Now don’t get me wrong, a lot of the things I remembered were not the most pleasant but they I was able to giggle at my own foolishness and wonder what in the world I was thinking.
Last year I felt such a strong sense of family and community because of the people that were here. Now some of those people are gone and new people have arrived. Who will join my family and the inner circle of my community? I can’t help but wonder. Really t could be any of them. Some of the best friends I have now are people who during orientation I couldn’t imagine ever being friends with. I couldn’t imagine ever having fun at Chi Phi the first time I was there or being close to any of the people I saw there. A year later two of the people I saw that night were sitting in my room chatting with me just because they’re my friends and a kid I met during my orientation sat on my bed next to me as one of my best friends.
I see change in the past and the future and I can feel it in the air now.
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