I was watching the History Boys last night and there were scenes of the guys checking out books from a library. Researching for the sake of researching. Studying. It felt weird watching them. I had that nostalgic sense you get watching people do something you used to do a lot but now no longer.
I spent 20 of my first 24 years in school. That's a long time. And then a couple years after that, I went back to school. That's 21 years of formal education. That's a routine that's hard to shake. A way of thinking that's difficult to break free of. The whole student psyche. The whole being young and being in university or grad school.
But once you do break away from that time in your life, it becomes so distant so quickly. Like you never really spent that much time in school. Like it was just a small part of your life. It is indeed, but you feel so far removed from that whole environment, even if it just has been a few years.
This whole growing up thing feels strange.
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