What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world around us?
-The O.C. Bible
So, I guess I’m really oblivious most of the time. Apparently there are things going on all around me that I have no idea about. It’s happened twice in the last two days and it kind of bothers me.
First, we were discussing something in a committee meeting yesterday and another student on the committee commented that the thing we were discussing was related to things that had been going on in the Senior class since Greek School. I’m part of the Senior Class; I’ve been here since Greek School, three years ago. I have no idea what she was talking about.
Then, in addition to the objection to announcing awards (see “Of the Awarding of Prizes,” above), there has been an objection to the publishing of the names of the recipients of scholarships in the school’s quarterly newsletter, The Vantage. The objection was based on “how this affected the community.”
Again, I don’t have a clue what that’s about. I remember when the issue of The Vantage in question came out, I remember seeing that the names of the scholarship recipients were in there. Knowing that I was not one of them, I glanced at it and tossed it. That was the last I heard of it or thought about it until this week when I read about the trouble it had caused.
I don’t think I’m a complete hermit, I eat almost all of the meals in the Refectory, I sit outside, I don’t hide in my room all that much. But it seems that there’s a whole world of trauma and troubles out there that I don’t see.
I’ve always known that I am completely out of the loop when it comes to who is dating whom. I know that is not part of my world. People can get together, break up, get together with other people, break up again and move on to a third relationship and I won’t know about any of it. I’m mostly okay with that, the less I see it going on the less I have to think about why I’m not participating in it.
Now, though, I wonder what else is going on that I don’t know about. I’ll probably never know.
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