In seven days I finally check out of the institution I’ve been studying at for the last 4 years! It’s about time. I don’t think I was waiting for this day when I started this adventure 12 years ago. I think I was more worried if they had mikans at the playground, and wether or not there would be a “fun” earth-quake drill. An eventful 6 years later, and I think I really understood that there was finally 6 years left; and it was supposed to be the hardest 6 years of my life, and school would never be the same again. It was not. Frankly it got easier, and was more of the same. Only difference was the one new thing, the thing that till that point did not matter. The human female, from that point on you began to realize that they would be the most complicated thing you would encounter, short of a rubix cube–I’ve yet to figure one out.
The 2 years following that were odd, if anything the 2 most wasteful years of my life. Nothing happened, nothing was learned, and most of all, I did not get to do one thing I really wanted the whole time. So what if I made the best paper airplane out of the whole school.
Then came the last four. Probably the four most important ones in terms of actual use in the future. I learned a lot, academically and not, I also got my deep understanding of people. Up until this point I was mostly passive, watching everything and everyone. No doubt this was because of growing up and being social with mostly older/adults rather than people my own age. So I normally fit in better with some 2 years older than someone from my own class. Regardless, I learned how to read a lot of different types of people, and see how things were really going on, the bigger picture if you will.
Most importantly however I learned how I wanted to live. Not really what I wanted to do, or how to accomplish that, but rather simply how I wanted to live. Instead of it changing it just got more focused, instead of living out of the country, it went to Europe or Japan. Just little things like that would change some of my subtle perceptions.
Yet now there is 7 days. 7 days and the 12 years are over. Thats 1/625 of the whole time I spent in acadamia so far.
Topping it all off, I am going to Japan afteral, and for a while, who knows when I’ll be back ;)
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Infamous One
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