There's a way to look at the world that makes everything remarkable. Growing up, the tendency to take things for granted will grow, and eclipse this former way of seeing. It's perfectly natural. Associations and generalizations are made in the brain in order to better organize and make sense of our interpretation of the world.
Every time there is something stunningly new there is a flash of remembrance, and a response ever so fleeting that may struggle to be recognized before being taken over by automatic processes that the mind has taken years to construct and refine.
In a transition from my old, comfortable world to the relatively new sphere of University, I was startled to discover things about myself that made me evaluate the way I perceive things.
It wasn't the education that was so different from what I was accustomed to, but the environmental temperature was just enough of a change to remind me of the way I had been observing my world. I left the home and neighborhood I had grown up in and moved startlingly far away from my beloved family. Spending my first semester as a sort of fish stuck in the sky, I had to extend my thoughts out of their comfort zone and into the broader range of possibilities.
When I stopped drowning, I began to fly.
It was merely a change of perspective, and immediately my life began to fall into order. Where I followed before, I began to implement the guidance received, and to leap into my own voids.
This semester sees me as a sort of premature Senior Graphic Design student, with ambitions to graduate in a few short semesters, hopefully armed with a BFA as well as minors in English Literature and Psychology.
Though I'm not sure if I'm ready to leave my bubble of education, I know that, no matter the events to follow, I'll certainly have a great new view to learn from.
If Fish Could Fly (2006)
From my deviantART account, www.hakidasu.deviantart.com
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