Bubbles

So I was just walking with a friend of mine, and we were walking by the newly-bloomed flowery trees in the quad. She said something interesting. It was "Oh, I forgot about life!"

It's a simple statement, to be sure, and one that we don't hear all that often. Usually, in my experience anyway, people try to complicate things that are much bigger than them in order to understand them better-- which is utter nonsense because the more you complicate a thing , the less simple it gets. When, in reality, we should strive to simplify life and try to understand a thing before getting so complicated.

That can happen, easily, in a bubble. Here at college, we're all in a little bubble. Especially the music department: everybody knows everything about everyone. That's just the nature of the beast. Outside, you DON'T know what goes on in other people's lives, and that can be strange if you aren't used to it. If we function in a bubble for too long, we get used to the feeling of security and that's ok for a while, but we also get used to all the drama and nitpicky critiquing of others that we do. That's the bad part. We become so caught up in life's little nitpicky bullshit and forget about what's really important: the big picture.

In the big picture, there is life outside your apartment, your college, your neighborhood. In the grand scheme of it all, there are many things that happen in one day that do not matter. Some people say everything happens for a reason, and there is certainly merit in believing that. However, I do believe in random occurances. Whether my friend's simple statemnet was random or she was put in my study group (that we were walking back from) in January so that later on when we did this project she could tell me that sentence that I needed to hear, I'm glad I heard it. And I'm certainly glad she's my friend, otherwise it would not have happened at all, and I'd have to figure this all out by myself, or some other obscure way.

I guess, in conclusion, there is something to be said for looking at and examining life, but never really forgetting about it.