Undergraduate Admissions

Lately I’ve had some realizations about some family members. For me (maybe for everyone?) it’s easy to perceive family members not as actual people, but just as unchanging monoliths. They are who they are, as they always have been, and seemingly always will be. I see them at the holidays and they act the same way, spit out the same jokes as every year, and in general exist within an extremely narrow paradigm in my mental framework. There is no context or real history to their existence because they exist not as people but as characters, present as far back as I can remember and always existing and functioning within the same pattern.

Perhaps I had to do some growing up of my own, or perhaps situations had to change, before I could understand these people as people and not as caricatures. Anyway, it’s interesting to me to be able to perceive things that were previously invisible. Suddenly pieces start falling into place and things start making a bit more sense than they did before. Personalities, relationships, and lifestyles no longer seem arbitrary.

This post was a little weird. The next one will be full of fun things like pictures and movies, I promise.