Falcon Footnotes

Procrastination. Everybody’s doing it..come on, you have plenty of time. Maybe ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ is on TBS? But hold the phone, Ray Romano jumped the shark years ago. If you’re going to procrastinate, don’t settle for TBS.

If I start thinking about classrooms and then a little about professors, eventually I’ll be obsessing about the next exam or assignment..inevitably leaving me disconnected from all useful thought and on a one way track to justifying procrastination. But for me, that always either means 1 of 2 things; Discovery or a Documentary.

The Discovery Chanel could educate an alien. Really, if an alien came to earth and we needed to tell them all about our planet, you just sit the thing down and give it Discovery, Animal Planet, and the History channel. In two or three weeks you’d have something like a ten year old. It is by this accreditation that I justify watching the Discovery channel whenever I can, especially when I just need to zone out on the life cycle of butterflies: very relaxing.

Documentaries are another option. Unlike actual ‘movies’ with stories and actors and fake blood, Documentaries have the element of reality, regardless of the propaganda typically being spread by the idea behind the screen. For some reason it is much easier to watch these films and not feel a sense of deteriorating brain cells. Documentaries will be controversial, colorful, or boring. It’s rather a hit or miss activity, but identical to the Discovery Chanel; very relaxing.

Documentaries will give you opinions, Discovery will keep you learning.

Hermit crabs are fascinating creatures. Think about this, a hermit crab changes bodily homes every other month. That’s like playing musical bedrooms with your life. That’s like moving your bedroom into one of your friend’s bed rooms every other week. If that was the case, could there ever truly be a feeling of being  “at home”?

Wikipedia defines “Home” as simply being, “the place in which one lives”. But no, home is more. The word home triggers a sense of belonging. It is by no means constricted to one place or one time..home can be the cozy living room of the family house or the little study nook on the 4th floor of a collegiate academic building. Home’s change, expand, disappear, and can be nothing more than a memory by itself.

College changes the place and understanding of home for many students. Studying abroad will stretch and provoke query in even more unique ways. Home may never be the same again once college starts and it may end up in a thousand other hermit shells before graduation. But that is no cause for alarm. It is in fact a stupendous challenge to us students and our hearts. In the end, we are bound to breath until our dying breath, and where we intrust our love for places and people will leave our trail of homes..always calling back to us but placid in our wake.