Calbos: ‘Home is where the heart is’
So what should I write about for my very last column? Should I continue with my never-ending rant on Iraq? The economy? The election campaigns which get more and more depressing each day? It’s not just my last column of the year, but forever here at GCSU.
There are so many topics I wish I could discuss, such as the Delta/Northwest Airlines merger. That ended up differently than I had expected (thank goodness)! It could also set a merger deal between UAL (parent company of United Airlines) and Continental Airlines. As an airline junkie, just mentioning the thought peaks my interest.
However, there’s another issue I haven’t tackled. This is the fact we’re finally seeing the real prices of homes now that we have a housing bubble. I would use the term housing implosion. I’m sure the pun would not be funny to some though. We are all realizing how inflated some home prices were in the past five years.
Or here’s a topic I haven’t tackled. What about the proliferation of Zumba this year? After having gone two Tuesdays in a row, I can understand how it can be addicting.
However, there are some topics I haven’t touched, such as religion for my own reasons, because this would involve certain social issues. As some of my friends, but not many readers know, I am theologically conservative (surprising, I know). I’m at a turning point spiritually, whether to keep going to my church (which is evangelical/ Pentecostal) or to consider another denomination all together. That’s a good term to use when thinking about where my life is going.
I have decisions which I cannot make on my own, possibly because I’m too much of a Gemini to decide things for myself. Or maybe I just have too many interests and need to grab a hold of those people I highly respect. Their opinions are worth gold to me when it comes to helping myself decide where I’m going from here.
I remember one of the reasons I came to GCSU—the word home was used by a student on a tour of the campus. It felt like home here, it was the little things that helped me decide when I was at a turning point almost two years ago.
A friend of mine, reminded me the other day that I should follow my heart, and I remember that that’s exactly what I did when I picked GCSU. I didn’t know if I was going to make friends, I actually didn’t care. But here, I made friends with faculty (especially in my major department of government and sociology), staff, students and some members of the administration.
Writing for The Colonnade, sometimes I think I made some enemies too, but not everyone is going to like me, I suppose. People read my columns who don’t like me. They call me naïve and liberal (like that’s a bad word). Those of us at The Colonnade who are graduating have had a blast working for the paper. We may not have agreed with each other or perhaps we’ve gotten on the editors’ nerves for not meeting particular deadlines (hey, no comment from the peanut gallery!) Yet, in spite of mine or anyone else’s opinion here at the paper we love to write for every week of the semester. We realize that we’re a small community … a family if you will. And family is the core of home.
I will always have wanderlust, it’s in my blood. I have to go places, learn about people past and present. I love watching how different people interact in different cultures and places. But I have friends in many places that I can call family. And whenever I need to make a decision at a turning point in my life, I know that I can call on to help make a decision. It’s no wonder why they say “home is where the heart is.”
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on Apr 25 2008. Filed under Opinion.
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