College Quad = Silly Anecdotes

Seriously. Think about it.

"The path to wisdom"... "Academic Corridor"... etc etc.

I was thinking. I'm gonna try and be as cheesy as possible with this post (let you in on a secret: I think I'm about to succeed).

Hokay, point one:

1) There are a bunch of paths in the quad. All around campus there's streamlined, concrete, tried-and-tested paths to get to different buildilngs, classes, places. You get the idea. Nothing's wrong with taking those paths.. Sometimes they take a while because there's either a lot of people on there and it's all cluttered, you might be tired so you walk slow, whatever the reason might be.
2) There's also a lot of grass outside the paths. Nobody really walks on the grass. It's entirely allowed and accepted, but no one does it. The first time I did it I felt strange. Then I saw others do it and it allayed my fears (stupid, immature high school do-I-fit-in fears).
3) We remember the old adage, "The shortest distance between two points is a straight line." To get to your destination (class, convo, w/e) go in as straight a line as possible. Whether it be a path, grass, over buildlings, whatever. Do it.

After reading all that, hopefully you, the reader, kept up with all the silly cliche things you always hear when "shooting for the moon" (oops there's another one). Let's name them!

• Something sticks out in 1 and 2 that reminds me of Robert Frost's "The Road Less Traveled" etc.
• Number 3 is just pathetic. But like I said, I succeeded in being corny, did I not.
  

So, as I was walking across the grass today after class back to my dorm, I was thinking... I almost never walk in the grass when it's dark out. I keep to the path because it's the only thing I can see. I also remember it and know when it turns, stuff like that. Could it be that walking in the grass would mean I'm straying from the tried-and-true method of walking to my destination? If the grass represents the unknown in the dark (and the light), would walking in the grass make me brave? Since I was "afraid" when I first did it would that logically follow that there is an inbred fear of the unknown, yet obviously harmless in the human psyche?

How awesome is that. Anyway...

I was thinking... would it show bravery or stupidity in taking the grass? There's nothing wrong with it, it's acceptable and it gets you there faster. SO WHY DOES NO ONE USE IT??

It's unknown. I know I've run into a logical paradox but the unknown is nothing. We have nothing to fear. Nothing does not exist. Therefore, the fear of the unknown does not exist.

Then what exists? Something.


It's cold out today. Ohio weather for ya.