While I am currently visitng home in Truro, Nova Scotia for reading week, I noticed something I forgot about in the life in a bubble we refer to as "being a student".....appointments! Living a province away and dealing with class, homework and midterms, your "checkups" seem to get pushed to the back of the priority list. In one week, I have a dentist, doctor, optometry and even hair appointment. Moreover, I've seen my parent's have an appointment to bring the SUV to the garage and chase my two brother's around from school and rink to rink for hockey. Everything seems to run on set schedules and the clock is the Holy Grail. Maybe this reading week has given me a touch of reality again and seen being a student isn't as time demanding as I previously thought.
Society as a whole needs to slow down and appreciate what's around them. A viral video is floating around social media lately, describing a concert professional violinist posing as a street performer in a subway station. The mass majority of people walked directly past the same violinist people pay to see, without giving him the time of day. The exception was children who normally stopped to listen, only to be rushed away by their parents, probably running late for an appointment.
So maybe next year for winter break I'll go appointment free, however, my eyes will probably need to be checked, my teeth cleaned and hair cut again!
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