Sea of Faces

So for anyone who is currently or have attended a post secondary institution, you would know what the environment is like. Especially some of the larger ones with a population of a town, it can be quite intimidating. I find it amazing how even though there's so many people at a university, each one of these faces are after a goal of some sort and carry out their own individual path during their time in that college. At the time it seems that you alone is so insignificant and don't really mean a thing. The way the system works hints at that as well. To professors, you are nothing more than a number. You spend so much more time alone or with significantly smaller groups. You're just another face. And when you think about it, a few of these faces you see on a daily basis will go on and could quite possibly make it big and become more well known somewhere down the road. Thanks Ryan for your "people" post, it inspired me to do some of that as well and end up writing about it, haha. As much of my time is spent alone at the university (what a loser, eh?), I don't do it directly, but I take note of alot of people and what they do. I came to wonder what is running through each and every one of these people that I come across?

I've noticed that theres a certain population that work in pairs. It is always a guy and a girl. Of course you would see the couples who are dating, then there are those guys who always have a girl with them and vice versa. Alot of the time, the two of them seem like they are sidekicks and all that stuff, like they're so happy they know each other, even if they're not dating. There's also those people that I see who are obviously alone at the moment. Most of the time they would have a phone out trying to text someone or something like that, which means they have pretty big connections or friends that are just not with them at the moment. I sometimes wonder to myself, are they really talking to their friends? Or are they just trying to act cool and do the finger movements to make it look like they're so busy? These are two of many personalities I've come across here at the University of Alberta. I believe the university is a wonderful place for some humbling. Teaching that the world definitely does not revolve around you and that the world is actually so big. Forget that "it's a small world cliche."

As most of these people are probably busy as heck, I wonder if any of them actually come to contemplating the university life. I could probably go up to people and ask them what it feels like to be just another face on the campus and I'd get a huge range of answers. Some would say they never even think about it because they have no time, while others would just say something along the lines of it being sweet and enjoying the new life and all that jazz. But I wonder if I would get any responses that would include wondering what goes on with other people at the campus. Stuff about what they are thinking about, how stressed they are, how their life is at the moment, etc.

I feel like such a nerd for living such a "mystical" life, haha. I very rarely stress, not busy at all, think about life alot, and a bunch of other cheesy stuff. Well what can I say? I'm just one insignificant face out of a million doing my own thing and living my own life (=