Community in the Halls of Ivy.

I feel it appropriate at this time to share with you a recent event dear reader.  Before class we held a hallway community discussion.  It is funny to think how we all started out a tight lipped group and now we all know a little about each other just from talking in the hallway.
I noticed a in our class, as opposed to other classes of course, a tenuous bond.  A sharing of ideas and feelings.  I've tried lately to carry this outside of class.  I am normally a very extroverted person and I have taken this a step further.  I am quite sure that many have thought me odd or even a bit insane but it is worth it when I consider how many people have returned my temporary extension of friendship.  I think if we all went out of our way to be a little bit more communal it would result in a much happier campus.  I think I would like a happier campus.  Not many others would though.  It's hard to appreciate community when you don't want to be there in the first place.  Life is funny like that isn't it dearest reader.  People spend so much time doing things they don't want to do in the hopes that will lead to something better that they miss the best times along the way.  A smile from a stranger is more beautiful than the golden toilet that you'll never have. 
I met a girl at Teavana when I went to buy a cup.  We started to talk and found out that we loved the exact same authors.  We exchanged book ideas and emails and still talk with each other over 5 months later.  I live for these things.  I hope you do too.