Penn State University.
Home to the craziest sorority girls, most obnoxious athletes, and a girl trying to start all over.
Aurora Augustine has been homeschooled her entire life because it's what her father wanted from her. In fact, she's always doi...
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Aurora Augustine
I never went to a therapist but I think that my issues stem from the fact that my dad caged me in from the world whereas my mother had the key to the cage but instead of letting me out, she took the key and ran.
I always thought that going to a therapist would be beneficial for someone like me. For someone who never had anyone to talk to her, I think that it would be best for me to find someone to talk to. It was officially day five of me being on this campus and I had a few things going for me– minus the social aspect.
Number one, I had an interview at McCutchen's very soon.
Number two, I had only set the smoke detector off in my dorm once.
And last but not least, I talked to every person I saw. The only thing is that I would only talk to people over the age of thirty-five. If they weren't graying at the hairs by the tiniest bit, I wouldn't make a random comment about the weather. I wouldn't talk about this year's football schedule. I also wouldn't make comments about how long some of the crosswalk "wait" signs take to change to "walk".
So far the only interaction I've had with someone remotely close to my age was that nice kid with the big glasses from the cafe. Unfortunately, even if I did have a social bone in my body there was nobody on this campus that looked friendly like him.
"You must be the moth before you become the butterfly. A tiny caterpillar doesn't blossom into a caterpillar overnight." A woman's narrator's voice came from my headphones off of an ipod I had rented from the campus.
"Being social is a trait, it's not a requirement. Society has just spent decades making us believe that we have to talk to people but whether or not that is true, nobody has to talk to anyone. Conversation is a false narrative. You can live your entire life without uttering a word to anyone. Of course, nobody in their right mind would advise you to live like that because how would you make a livelihood without communicating? But I will tell you right now, you don't need that voice."
The sun was rising, warming my skin while I walked with no destination in mind. I tried to be in that room as little as possible. I had been in a room my entire life, why would I pay money to be stuck in one all over again?!
