Do you ever feel like you are living in an alternate reality or wish you did? Today has been that kind of day. I have been at a school that I dearly love the last couple of days after being away for a month and a half (I was on Christmas break and teaching high school for a few weeks). I have made great connections with other teachers and the students in all grades and many people were happy to have me back. I have to say it was a wonderful feeling, but it's a feeling that has a twinge of sadness to it. I feel like I am a welcome guest, but still on the outside looking in because it isn't really MY school and I don't have MY OWN classroom there.
This is where the two worlds part comes in (in case you were wondering)...
On one hand it is nice to have the freedom to come and go as I please without the responsibilities of having a classroom. On the other hand I am itching to plant some roots and make a real everyday impact in a class in a school. My head and heart are overflowing with ideas that seem stuck until they can be planted somewhere - somewhere where I belong. If I could live in an alternate reality, I could have it both ways. Does that sound too melancholy? Too full of self-pity or self-serving? Sorry, it's been that kind of day - a little bittersweet.
On a completely different note, but still related to my post title...
I have watched three shows this week that have dealt with some kind of alternate reality:
1. Lost - read recap here or if you are really brave here - two worlds happening simultaneously ~ life on the island with where they left off at the end of last season (sort of) and life if the plane never crashed.
2. Fringe - read recap here - There are two different realities that have collided and it has literally split people apart or joined them in horrific painful ways – very crazy.
3. Caprica (the prequel series of Battlestar Galactica (that I keep meaning to watch – I have it downloaded, just need to make time to watch it) on SyFy - read recap here - There are avatars that live in a virtual reality that is both connected and disconnected to reality.
It’s funny that there has been this recurring theme in my life and in the TV shows I have been watching. I guess life really does imitate art (in a non-science fiction kind of way for me at least).
Ok ramblings over, just a couple of questions...
Does what I’m writing make any sense and is this how most TOCs feel?
PS - Can you figure out the connections between the three series (they are linked in a 6 degrees of separation kind of way)?
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