People always tell me I live in a bubble. Like "when you get out in to the real world, things will be so different!"
I have two issues with this. And I am on a lot of medication for my cracked tailbone (update:yes still in pain...note to all do NOT wear non-grip UGGS in the rain) so that is undoubtedly influencing my judgement and reasoning (I don't have an issue with that though...)
First of all. Vanguard, Orange County, whatever...it is the real world people. Like it is real and it is the world. At Vanguard, people still get their heart broken, they still experience trauma, they still deal with friend issues, they still fall in love, they still deal with money issues (and they still have to deal with the problem of not having enough money), they still are LIVING life. It's like I don't understand how the moment I graduate, all of a sudden I am transported to this magical place called "the realy world" where I suddenly have all these responsiblities. I mean people are always like...you have to start paying the bills, working a real job, etc...UH, guys, I pay the bills ($30,000 school=bills) and a lot of people work real jobs or consider school a real job. Like...I mean I can sort of see how life would be different, but I don't think being at school makes me in any less of a "real world."
I just don't understand how this is "not the real world..." it is THE WORLD and IT IS REAL. Right?
And secondly,
I hate that the "bubble" gets such a bad rap. I mean, people get somewhere and then they stay there, the issues that happen there become important, and the people they meet there become a huge part of their lives...therefore creating a "bubble." But how is that anyone else's fault but the people's own? I don't know where this going...but like, people are always like "The Vanguard Bubble" like it is some terrible thing...such a negative connotation. It's not Vanguards fault it is the way it is...its the people that populate it, so stop blaming Vanguard...stop blaming the "bubble." It has a hard enough life without whiny VU students all up on its grill.
I don't know why I am writing about this. It's late. I am tired. I jsut got done singing Christmas music for 3 hours. And I am on meds.
Night.
LF
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