I LEAVE FOR COLLEGE IN

i leave for college in a couple of days. what’s odd is that i’m not particularly emotionally worked up about it. sure i’m a little sad that i’ll be leaving my family and friends, and i’m a little excited about “THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE,” but all and all, i feel like i did a month or two ago. that said, i’m beginning to feel distanced from my current surroundings, especially regarding my town. driving around it the past couple of days, i’ve begun to see my town as more of a town than my home. i see it not as “that building where the library used to be” or “my school” or “the part of the road where i stopped using training wheels”, but rather as a regular old, run-of-the-mill town, with buildings, schools, and roads. people move back and forth, know each other, talk with each other, go to the bank, go to the supermarket, eat sleep, just like in any town. the effect is akin to taking off in an airplain, and seeing the airport and city you just took off from from above, as a whole. it’s like taking off into limbo.