When I first went off to college and moved into the dorms, I was gleeful to not have to hang out in the elements anymore
As I rest pondering the events in my life, I realize that some of my childhood memories are a bit strange. I lived in a small neighborhood most of my life and my great friend and I genuinely didn’t have some of the normal activities that multiple of my college friends talk about all the time. Our neighborhood was a typical one stoplight neighborhood with a small general store, post office, and a gas station. There were no filmplexs, shopping malls, or recreation centers to hang out in, however when my friends talk about these things I find them truly foreign and often wonder what they would guess about the immense barn parties my great friend and I would have back in high school, but i grew up in the midwest too, which meant that my great friend and I had some pretty serious temperatures to contend with, there was no heat or air conditioning in those barns either. Unlike my friends, my great friend and I couldn’t party somewhere that was weather conditions controlled, except for the bonfire my great friend and I may have outside when it was cold. When I first went off to college and moved into the dorms, I was gleeful to not have to hang out in the elements anymore. When my friends wanted to head to the local park on a genuinely tepid day or go ice skating in the winter, I opted to hang back in the comfort of the building and they could never genuinely understand why. I figured, if I had the chance of staying in and having complete control of the temperature, why would I subject myself to the elements to try and have fun? We come from totally unusual worlds and that is what makes life both confusing and interesting at the same time.