Oh if I were living on a beach

“Don't grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.”

-- Michelle Held

And yet, I had forgotten about the beach. It's funny how I was born in a beachtown then moved to a town that has a beach but I was nowhere near it and now going to college in a town that is truly landlocked. There's something about water that is so prestine and so calming, being near it makes you forget all your troubles. When I visited my ex in Fort Whalton Beach, our troubles simply melted away. I was in paradise and I said to myself, can it get any better than this? As you can tell from the top picture, if you can see it, it was like from a brochure. And the brochure didn't lie.

And then I went back to the college town, and the troubles returned. The ex and I broke up, I cried it out, I laughed it out, I went back to the ebb and flow of classwork. And yet I missed the beach.

It seems strange to think how college life would be if it occured on or near a beach town. My Dad went to a college near the beach and the temptaiton of lounging about was always around the corner. Would I feel that way? I don't know. I'm not one to miss class except the time it involved brain anatomy, something I lived to regret (another blog post will explain the consequences of missing class). But in the town I'm at, peace and quiet is sometimes hard to find. I personally like downtown, but getting to downtown is hard without a car. The times I have been down there, it's been to walk around or take people on tours of the city. I never took a day just to go down there by myself.

As the New Year approaches, it's time to make some choices on how to better oneself for the the next cycle. Watching Sex and the City, i find myself perhaps more reflective. Carrie is an interesting character. Her three friends represent her personality and she lives her life through them. Of course, these are four affluent women living in the busiest city of the world (or close to it).

So a goal for this college student: try and find a place of peace and quiet in which I can go to be myself and have that ever precious ME time.

Important for any college student is finding that ME time, as we in the Housing business like to call that sponge squeezing time. I thought it was the gym, but perhaps it's a two prong ME time.

Let's see if we can find out.