We Dangle Our Feet From the Highest Places

And it's a home that wakes you up at 2 a.m. when someone yells "I LOVE THIS CITY" to the sky outside your window. It's a being that is so in love with itself that never mind what you think, we're going to have a freaking good time. It's the smell of exhaust, oranges, sweat and live music. It's a book that uses the F word so passionately that its definition changes in your mind. It's a hole in the wall of tofu, Vietnamese subs and Mexican chocolate milk for the vagabond in all of us. It's a road of courteous scary drivers, risk-your-life-everytime-you-hop-on cyclists and many, many overheated pedestrians. It's a dance that grooves and jives to its own beat and the beat of live music every night everywhere.

It's Austin, TX.

Well I Heard There Was A Secret Chord

At what age are we officially allowed to know what we want?

Or maybe the question is, at what age do we really know what we want?

To Start Our Own Peculiar Ways

It's so strange to me how different we perceive something when we're comparing it to something else versus when we're just perceiving it standing alone without any comparison. Perhaps this is just me, but whenever I compare something, it loses a lot of its worth because I start to see only what it's lacking or, on a more positive side, only how much better it is than something else. If I look at something without comparing it at all, even what was better that the other thing seems to have so much more good. That doesn't make any sense. Let me explain it in a different way: pretend object A gets 50 cool points and object B gets 40. Looking at this way, object A really only gets 10 cool points and object B gets 0. However, if I were to look only at object A, it would get 50 and object B would get 40. I, for whatever reason, seem to appreciate things more when they stand alone.

More than that, if I'm comparing two things I only notice the qualities that they both have and then compare them. How unfair is that to the thing that has an amazing ability that doesn't even get noticed just because there's nothing to compare it to?

Where am I even going with this? I don't know. I guess it just goes back to the whole College thing. A few weeks ago, I realized that as I was meeting these new, fabulous people, all I was doing was comparing them to each other, to my friends from home, to the perfect person. No matter, I've learned my lesson and, in that, have learned another cheesy life lesson. Swell.

Things I've Learned and Thoughts I've Thought in College pt. 1

After exiting the dorm shower: Am I cleaner or dirtier than when I entered?

There is always more to person than their frat clothes.

If there is free stuff, go.

Fliers are your friends.

TAs, bikes, birds and squirrels are not your friends.

Studious honors kids in the living room do not care about becoming your friend.

Dance Anthem of the 80's

It is inevitable that you will change in college. Your life changes, drastically might I add, and we are what our lives make of us. What we learn and come to know depends on what our lives have taught us and shown us through different people and situations and locations and time periods and so many more life-altering factors. What we know and how we know to act determines who and how we are. For example, someone knows and acts out Syrian culture because they are familiar with Syria. So, back to college. Different situations, new situations, different information, new information, different people, new people.... different us. We are altered because our lives are altered.