Until recently I found my life to be quite interesting, but I have come to the realization that it, in fact, has actually been rather boring. Sure I've lived a pretty good life for an American, seen a lot of what the United States of America has to offer, been successful at a few things, but after my first semester away from my home state of Ohio I have come to find that for me, at least at this point in my life, there is no such thing as home, or at least by most definitions of the word.
My freshman year of college at MVNU was a really trying year, highlighted mainly by moments of intense boredom. Sure there were other reasons to transfer, but when I think about it, I never truly wanted to go there in the first place. As a high school student I always dreamed of going to school on the West Coast (mainly because of the weather I'll admit) but I took the convenient route by attending a school that was only a 2 hours drive from my home in the Cleveland area, and I came to regret that decision very much. I am about to start my second semester at SNU in Bethany, Oklahoma. While much of my contentment may have come from some maturity that comes with having been a college student for a year now, I also know that I am more satisfied because I am not in Ohio for the majority of the year. Growing up in the same place for 18 years and then having the thought that I may be in the same state for at least another 4 years scared me I guess. Who wants to spend a third of their lives in the same place, especially when young enough to get out and explore this great Creation that God has given us.
"Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than the next, moves slowly, over periods of years from one part of the earth to another. " -Paul Bowles
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