2008 Woodie Awards
Home sweet....guest room?
Ryan Cosgrove
Issue date: 9/30/04 Section: Opinion
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It happens to us all sooner or later. We go back home only to realize life has gone on without us. By now most of us have been home and we have realized things aren't as they should be. This is my second year and I watched it happen slowly, so I have the proper experience to warn all you first year students.
You go back to your hometown to visit your family and friends and slowly you realize something is horribly wrong. The town has continued to move even though you have not been there. It starts off when you go to visit your friends. After talking to them for a while you realize they missed you but somehow they went on. This is just too hard to believe but all the facts are there. The football team still stinks and the plays and musicals went on without you. How could they go on without you?
It gets worse though; you go home only to realize things have even changed there. The biggest and most difficult challenge to face is realizing your family has had no trouble with your absence. This is displayed in a number of ways but I think the most visible way is how your family dealt with the newly acquired space. Now I have heard about this happening in a number of ways, two siblings who shared a room now got their own or what happened to me. Your little conniving sister has decided her old room was too small so she has taken your room. Now your parents make her old room into the guest room and they expect you to sleep there. Sleep in the guest room? I am no guest, I am family. The worse part is after you give in to add to the humiliation the guest bed isn't long enough for you so you have to sleep with your feet hanging off the bed.
It is a tough fact for us all to face but we all realize sooner or later that life does go on without us. The easiest way to deal with this is to realize, that like your family and friends you have grown too. If its any conciliation to you, it happened to me and I am pulling for you.
You go back to your hometown to visit your family and friends and slowly you realize something is horribly wrong. The town has continued to move even though you have not been there. It starts off when you go to visit your friends. After talking to them for a while you realize they missed you but somehow they went on. This is just too hard to believe but all the facts are there. The football team still stinks and the plays and musicals went on without you. How could they go on without you?
It gets worse though; you go home only to realize things have even changed there. The biggest and most difficult challenge to face is realizing your family has had no trouble with your absence. This is displayed in a number of ways but I think the most visible way is how your family dealt with the newly acquired space. Now I have heard about this happening in a number of ways, two siblings who shared a room now got their own or what happened to me. Your little conniving sister has decided her old room was too small so she has taken your room. Now your parents make her old room into the guest room and they expect you to sleep there. Sleep in the guest room? I am no guest, I am family. The worse part is after you give in to add to the humiliation the guest bed isn't long enough for you so you have to sleep with your feet hanging off the bed.
It is a tough fact for us all to face but we all realize sooner or later that life does go on without us. The easiest way to deal with this is to realize, that like your family and friends you have grown too. If its any conciliation to you, it happened to me and I am pulling for you.