Waiting to Hatch

Bowling

There are sometimes that I still am shocked by the fact that I have responsibility. I'm not supposed to be old enough to be in charge of my life. And there are many days that I hope when I wake up in the morning I could be back in kindergarten when I was considered one of the "smart" kids. (Just in case anyone doesn't already know this, at Furman no one is smart. If even if you are a perfect student you still know nothing! And none of us are doing our best! Ok, sorry back to my point) But I've also realized that part of being an "adult" and a college student is knowing when to be irresponsible. For example, I have a paper due tomorrow. I've worked on it some but am not even half way done. After our leadership team meeting tonight we got a call. An invitation to go bowling. Several other people on leadership are in the same english class as I am and most of them have less done on their paper (or possibly nothing). I insisted that we go (um, it's fellowship) and persuaded my friends to go. This probably seems irresponsible, but I still think it was a wonderful decision. Bowling alleys are special places, because you can find all types of people in bowling alleys. College students, bowling teams, teenagers who aren't allowed to go anywhere else, people who are amazing and bowl like all the stinkin time, people who view the bowling alley as their own personal bar, and even cute little chubby asian kids (there was one in the lane next to us :D). There's also something about a bowling alley that makes me talk louder, laugh harder, and cheer for almost any number of pins left in the lane. It's just wonderful. I will inform you though, that being the stressed out, "our life is so hard here at one of the best and prettiest schools in the state" students that we are, there were some text books and flash cards that were brought along. Ooh, I also want to tell you that I was one pin away from getting a turkey! That really had nothing to do with the whole "irresponsible is sometimes good" point that I'm trying to make, but I still want people to know. Anyway, I guess I'm saying all this to encourage people to relax sometimes. So yea, I'll probably get a little less sleep tonight and might not feel the greatest tomorrow, but if those are my main problems, then I'm doing pretty good.

*I want to add a disclaimer that I don't throw papers to the side all the time. And that responsibility is a good thing. Just give yourselves a break sometimes. Ok, that's all.

posted by Shari @ 9:19 PM