Forget the Window Dressing
Tonight, I've been looking back through random leaves of paper that have been piling up since the start of school, reflecting on. . . Well, everything really.
There was a point shortly after I started this semester when I recall being terrified that I would walk away from this semester a very different person. I think my exact words were, "I will not leave this place the same as when I started."
It's interesting, to me, to think about that now.
Being here has been a lot like spending time backstage at Disney World. You see all the mechanical stuff that makes the "magic" happen. The characters without their costumes, Snow White sleep deprived pressured and bitching at the Dwarfs, Prince Charming playing around on Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel paying small children in a third world country to spin the straw into gold.
I came across this quote and found it rather fitting:
“The hopes and dreams of the common man are as noble as any king.” – Barton Fink
I think we’re all a little Barton Fink now and then. We can see the things that are real, or we can let ourselves be dazzled and intimidated.
Posted by Amanda at December 07, 2003 09:05 PM
