The labyrinth of life and everything in between

JASONRADKA ASST SPORTSEDITOR JNR722@CABRINI EDU

What’s the deal with long hall ways and not knowing what to do? How about saying something you shouldn’tin a conversation consumed by noise? Have you ever waved to the wrong person? Why can’tIfigure out how old you are!?

Iwas thinking the other day about these things and have decided to share with you readers some things that I just can’t explain or have a problem with dealing with in everyday life. Enjoy.

Remember those really unnecessarily long hall ways that connect the various sections of your high school? Of course you do. Now, I’m picturing an old girlfriend or a teacher that I may have created some sort of awkwardness with or down right hatred for at some point in my life. Of course, I always seem to find myself in the Great Wall of China of hallways with a person Ireally don’t to want to see at the end of it. As I approach this person and tumbleweeds cross my path, I find it very awkward because I’m not sure how to act during the approaching menace.

As I’m walking, I run some scenarios in my head as sweat drips down my brow. Do I look down as I walk in an attempt to fool this person into thinking that Ihaven’t noticed them yet? Or should I pull out my cell phone and make it look like I’m talking to somebody? What about trying to make conversation with a sizeable amount of space in between to relieve the anxiety of finally meeting up with the person? I really haven’t figured this type of situation out and have come across it many times on Cabrini’s campus. Do you feel the same way?

What about trying to start a conversation at a a concert? I try to avoid talking to people at concerts because I have this horrible fear about not being able to hear what they are trying to say to me.

Picture this. So I’m talking to my friend over here and he says something to me that I can’t quite hear.Now depending on the noise level, I decide whether or not to say,“what?” It’sintermission and I decide to give it a go. So I reply with another inquisition and for him to repeat what he said. Again I can’t hear. Eventually, I’m forced to reply with a head-nod and a “yes.”

The reason I do this is because I really don’t know or care what my friend has to tell me at a concert. Therefore, I tell him he’s right about whatever it may be and we can all get on with life even though I’ll never understand what he was trying to tell me. Problem with telling him yes was later after the concert he goes to me, “Yo man you got those 10 bills you owed me from that case I got you?” I didn’t plan on paying him for another week and broke my bank. Chalk that situation up as terrible. Now this may be one of those most embarrassing things that can happen to you. I picture myself standing in the cafeteria shooting the breeze and minding my own business. All of sudden Isee a girl I sort of know over yonder. I begin to sweat as I see her hand rise up above her waist preparing for the dreaded wave. I’m thinking sweet! She’s going to wave to me and she does. Or does she? I dumbly wave back, but no, she wasn’twaving at me. No, she’swaving at her girlfriend behind me. They run up and hug each other right past you, and you commence to feel like the lowest person on the face of the earth. This has happened to just about everybody at one point in their life, but doesn’t it give you one of the worst feelings in the world?

Fellas, now that we’re in college and between the ages of 17 and 22, you can sign offto all of the girls that you left in high school.

For some reason when I was in high school, it seemed so easy to determine how old a girl is just by appearance. I’m really not quite sure what happened in the past few years, but hasn’t it gotten so much harder?

It seems as though girls these days are developing a lot quicker than expected. Evolution is occurring right before my eyes! Check this, I’m chilling and talking to a girl I met at a party at home. Now she looks old enough to have a class with me at Cabrini but I’m afraid to ask her how old she is, seeing as though agirl might get offended.

Well I finally gather the fortitude to ask her and she ended up saying she knew who I was because she has classes with my sister. Gentleman, my sister is a junior in high school! How are you supposed to figure out a girl’s age without asking and getting put in an awkward situation like that? Looks just don’t scream their age anymore. Shucks.

Well, I’m done. Am I crazy or do these things suck?

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