Posted by pseudoname on May 26, 2006, at 10:31:28
In reply to Sorry about going on and on about it, posted by Deneb on May 26, 2006, at 0:19:28
Deneb, I’m so glad you’re posting a lot about the trip. I can’t get all my own thoughts & feelings about it out well enough. I can’t convey enough about what it meant to me and what I still think it’s doing. So I am *very* glad that you are still posting about it because that’s helpful to me. Otherwise I would think my persistent thoughts & feelings were just an overreaction and I should “move on”.
Did you ever go to summer camp as a teen? I remember that after about a week, everyone said they felt like they had never lived anywhere else, that camp had been their whole lives.
And after 2 weeks, you’d have a moment where it was like camp was just a foreign blip, and your real life was elsewhere, and camp was imaginary.
Weird. But everyone seemed to report having the same perspective changes at about the same time.
‘This American Life’ had an episode about summer camp, and a lot of adults look back on camp as still the purest, most authentic experience of their lives. I never had that at camp (not at all), but I think Toronto maybe had some parallels to that for you? Maybe not.
People were a little different than I expected, but also very much like their online selves. Except you are much shyer in real life. So I'm glad I knew you a little through Babble first.
I think it was different because people were so, so, relaxed & honest when we met, because we'd all been so exposed on Babble. That's a lot different than any other real-life get-togethers.
poster:pseudoname
thread:648680
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20060521/msgs/648814.html