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Even if I’m not in it
December 7, 2006
We’re expecting at least 15 inches of snow today. I walked to the university bookstore to sell back my history book. I liked that book. It had pictures from Ancient Egypt and the Renaissance. I briefly considered tearing them out to keep, but then remembered I was 20, and headed out into the blizzard.
I would have chosen not to take the book back at all. I still haven’t even begun studying for the final. But my water bill was due this morning, and I was still overdrawn from last month’s rent check, so I made the sacrifice.
As I made my way across the street to the library, wherein I would spend another significant portion of the week in a desperate attempt to make up for my chronic procrastination, I called my Dad. He informed me that my sister skipped her math tutoring after school, and that her 13th birthday party has been cancelled.
I then called my sister. Through tears and heavy breathing, she explained to me the seriousness of the situation. “I’ll be so embarrassed at school,” she heaved. “People will talk about me. They’re all going to talk about me next week.”
I told her, you know, it’s not the end of the world.
She assured me, it was.
For a brief moment I felt the sting of middle school, of life depending on birthday parties and popularity, and remembered that, even if I’m not in it, that world still exists.
Categories: College, Daily, Family
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