once upon a time
hey guys. this is your unofficial WoW correspondent. I quit WoW. I'll look at it again when the expansion comes out. ( i never reached level 60 ;~;) but more to the point...
yes, we've all gone through orientation. we were all ripped from the tight and close relationships we managed to develop in 2 years, and I must say i think we bonded stunningly well. there was love in our class (ok gay stuff aside for now), a passion we had there, the feeling of being more than comfortable- positively at HOME- in each others company...
we had a precious something (let's not name it, it's a feeling) which was shared by EVERY individual in class. this is the fact that makes it astounding-- the scale of it. never have i seen 33 people so readily on the same wavelength. and we know then that it must hurt now, because an emotional mainstay in our lives has been knocked away from under our feet, and we have been thrust into a new environment with unfamiliar people. we don't even know a whole lot of GEPs. and of course, there's a whole sub-species coming into the equation, something which we happily ignored for 4 years (most of us, anyway).
it's no wonder then that many of us wish that a step back into the past is possible. some of us sincerely hate today for a number of reasons, one of which is because they had it so good only a couple of months ago. but this isn't what it should be like. i feel like some of us are being withheld by that powerful memory from making new friends and accepting the present-- some of us are aching overly much and brooding.
i hope that instead of wishing it could be yesterday, we all embrace the adventurous spirit that was 4J, and MAKE it so. take whatever 4J instilled in you, and spread it to your new classmates. be the odd one out, and infect the rest. be as changed as 4J had changed you. for only this I feel would be doing 4J justice.
enjoy yourself as much as possible, or set out to make your own life better. treat your new friends as you would any 4J-ian. it is not betrayal to know new people. but please never forget your roots, or dismiss the soul we once shared as childish. that is true cowardice, for once upon a time, we were one.
and carl, how ya doing? ;)
yes, we've all gone through orientation. we were all ripped from the tight and close relationships we managed to develop in 2 years, and I must say i think we bonded stunningly well. there was love in our class (ok gay stuff aside for now), a passion we had there, the feeling of being more than comfortable- positively at HOME- in each others company...
we had a precious something (let's not name it, it's a feeling) which was shared by EVERY individual in class. this is the fact that makes it astounding-- the scale of it. never have i seen 33 people so readily on the same wavelength. and we know then that it must hurt now, because an emotional mainstay in our lives has been knocked away from under our feet, and we have been thrust into a new environment with unfamiliar people. we don't even know a whole lot of GEPs. and of course, there's a whole sub-species coming into the equation, something which we happily ignored for 4 years (most of us, anyway).
it's no wonder then that many of us wish that a step back into the past is possible. some of us sincerely hate today for a number of reasons, one of which is because they had it so good only a couple of months ago. but this isn't what it should be like. i feel like some of us are being withheld by that powerful memory from making new friends and accepting the present-- some of us are aching overly much and brooding.
i hope that instead of wishing it could be yesterday, we all embrace the adventurous spirit that was 4J, and MAKE it so. take whatever 4J instilled in you, and spread it to your new classmates. be the odd one out, and infect the rest. be as changed as 4J had changed you. for only this I feel would be doing 4J justice.
enjoy yourself as much as possible, or set out to make your own life better. treat your new friends as you would any 4J-ian. it is not betrayal to know new people. but please never forget your roots, or dismiss the soul we once shared as childish. that is true cowardice, for once upon a time, we were one.
and carl, how ya doing? ;)
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