A day to my thoughts. With the ipod plugged in, the music playing, I walk out into the college social scene. I'm off to lunch. I walk down the stairs into alumni plaza, heads turn and I exchange eye contact, no words. A lot can be said with eyes, but nothing is heard. Thoughts are silent and the college students faces are blank, nothing to be read. Emotions are hidden.
In the expansive space of the new cafeteria in Central Campus I grab a seat next to the wall facing towards the center of the room. I eat my lunch slowly, deep in thought, while playing along with the game of my fellow college students by wearing a mask, no voice, simply watching as people interact with one another. A girl joins her "friends" for lunch sitting down at a crammed table. Soon after she sits down they ALL get up and leave her to finish her lunch alone. To avoid the awkwardness she instantly whips out her cell phone and begins to text like her life depended on it. She too has fallen victim to the college life of donning a mask and hiding behind something.
Why are all these walls put up stopping communication and interaction between one another? Cliques have formed, its natural, because of the need to be accepted and HAVE friends. What creates this separation between students, forcing them to go deeper into wearing a mask rather than face a bit of unease? My day continues, time passes and I have class to go to. I wonder if my thoughts on the college social scene have been felt by others. I get up, clear my plate and disappear into the mass of students.
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