Per aspera ad astra
This summer I really wanted to get away. I wanted to be somewhere else, not Michigan. With new people. Spring Arbor sounded boring, it sounded the same. I wanted new people, new places. I came to school and met new people, went new places and satisfied that desire. Now I look ahead and in not too many months I will be in a completely new place, with completely new people. All of my friends and family, everyone will be hours away.
The idea of that is scary and intriguing. Challenging. I’m not sure I want it anymore, but I’ve got it. It will be a test of my social skills and of my character. I plan to pass. After talking to my friends, from home and school, it sounds like most of them aren’t going too far. A lot of people from school are staying within and hour from campus. With friends from home its a little more varied, but none are leaving the state.
Even when I came to Spring Arbor I knew people and was only (a little over) two hours from home. And I had friends handed to me, people on my floor, in my room, etc. I suppose its possible that it will be easy again, but my friend making skills are out of practice. The friends I’ve made in the past few years, have (by and large) been friends of friends. And while I am (mostly) an extrovert, I am pretty reserved around new people. I think it comes from being very much a skeptic and a pessimist.
We’ll see how it goes.
Per aspera ad astra
