remember?

Tonight I watched "Unknown White Male" with friends. It was really great, I recommend it. As I drove home I was thinking about one of the premises of the movie: how much our experiences shape who we are. There's so much philosophy there...

When I drove through Vanguard's campus after dropping a friend off I looked at it differently after seeing that movie. I felt like crying. I looked up at the bare windows of the old towers remembering so many things that had happened there and feeling almost sad that it was now quiet and still. Yellow streetlights let speckled shadows pass my windows as memories of my time there washed over me. Part of me wants to revisit those old dorm rooms, the cafeteria, classrooms... to remember all that transpired, but I know it would just be trying to recreate a feeling of an era that's over. College friends are scattered. Friendships drop off and change, friends start careers, get married, or move to countries like Burma or Uganda. It has to change of course. It's just so hard to say goodbye.

freshman year before a rez rally