Friends
Think about how different your life would be without your friends in it..
I was standing outside near the electronic billboard in the Quad the other day, when I got into a conversation with a group of people I knew from CRU and BSM. We started talking about roommates and such, and I realized something interesting.
All of us said that we would be much different people without our roommates.
It made me think about my own life, and how much different it would have been had I never met the guys that I live with. This could be a story about grace as much as it is about friendship.
Coming into college I had really no friends. I left Wimberley High School with a bad group of friends (that is a much longer story), and all I knew is that I wanted to escape that. So I come to Texas State not really knowing anyone (even though Wimberley is literally 25 minutes away) except my older brother and his friends.
After a year at college, I somehow get into a conversation with some cool guys from Falls Hall that I knew on the way to the Rec Center, and they tell me how they are looking for another roommate to live with. Somehow, and the details totally elude me, I end up getting an apartment with these guys-Reid Fisher and Chris Quarve (also this other guy named Justin Nelson)-and we move to then-called Jefferson Commons apartment complex. I really don't know how I got hooked up with these guys. This is why I say this story is about grace as well. Because it just fell into place. I did not "make it happen", I did not "take the initiative", I didn't do anything. I just got into a conversation with these guys, and the next thing I know I move in with them.
Well, this "decision" has probably had the most profound impact on my life. I've lived with Reid Fisher for about 3 years now, and now I have two new roommates-Trey and Ryan-and just living with them, being under the same roof, seeing the lives that they lead, has made such an amazing impact, and something that I know that through-out my lifetime I will never forget. The story of their lives could contain volumes.
But the point of all of this is simple.. Just think about how much your friends, or roommates, or parents (PEOPLE), have affected your life. For me and the people in the Quad today it happened to be our roommates. But I can think of some minor relationships that have made a tremendous impact. Interactions with others have such a big impact that you can never fully know. So think about the people you know who have impacted your life.
I was standing outside near the electronic billboard in the Quad the other day, when I got into a conversation with a group of people I knew from CRU and BSM. We started talking about roommates and such, and I realized something interesting.
All of us said that we would be much different people without our roommates.
It made me think about my own life, and how much different it would have been had I never met the guys that I live with. This could be a story about grace as much as it is about friendship.
Coming into college I had really no friends. I left Wimberley High School with a bad group of friends (that is a much longer story), and all I knew is that I wanted to escape that. So I come to Texas State not really knowing anyone (even though Wimberley is literally 25 minutes away) except my older brother and his friends.
After a year at college, I somehow get into a conversation with some cool guys from Falls Hall that I knew on the way to the Rec Center, and they tell me how they are looking for another roommate to live with. Somehow, and the details totally elude me, I end up getting an apartment with these guys-Reid Fisher and Chris Quarve (also this other guy named Justin Nelson)-and we move to then-called Jefferson Commons apartment complex. I really don't know how I got hooked up with these guys. This is why I say this story is about grace as well. Because it just fell into place. I did not "make it happen", I did not "take the initiative", I didn't do anything. I just got into a conversation with these guys, and the next thing I know I move in with them.
Well, this "decision" has probably had the most profound impact on my life. I've lived with Reid Fisher for about 3 years now, and now I have two new roommates-Trey and Ryan-and just living with them, being under the same roof, seeing the lives that they lead, has made such an amazing impact, and something that I know that through-out my lifetime I will never forget. The story of their lives could contain volumes.
But the point of all of this is simple.. Just think about how much your friends, or roommates, or parents (PEOPLE), have affected your life. For me and the people in the Quad today it happened to be our roommates. But I can think of some minor relationships that have made a tremendous impact. Interactions with others have such a big impact that you can never fully know. So think about the people you know who have impacted your life.
I wonder what impact your good lookingness, the really ridiculous kind, has affected them.. Nice blog :)
Posted by
MW Rice |
7:58 AM