"waving through a window" - dear evan hansen
Always on the outside looking in.
This quote specifically is from the song "waving through a window" from "Dear Evan Hansen" the musical theatre production. However I have heard similar amendments in many places.
In the past week I have experienced being on the inside in the fullest form I have ever before. I knew we were all loud, I knew we could have been more productive or time efficient, I knew that we could have left for the class 2 minutes earlier and not have gotten in the equivalent of "trouble" in a place with no permanent consequences. But we were having fun.
Why would I stop? There were people that spent most of the camp being on time and being productive; however by the end even all of them were playing cards and making friends in the same room as everyone else.
We were all inside.
One of our instructors for the week could tell that, he knew we were teenagers and he knew we were having fun; which is what these years are all about. The other I feel is much more like I have been in the past, on the outside looking in. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I feel that both me in the past and him did not acknowledge that we werent inside the fun-sphere.
When your falling in a forest and theres nobody around. Do you ever really crash or make a sound?
From the same song. I feel it ties neatly into another quote from the song
Step out of the sun if your getting burned.
They both show little resistance to humility. The former makes me question why he was alone in a forest at all? Presumably because it's not in the sun.
Humility and acceptance are not difficult traits to obtain given the oportunity. This past week has certainly strenghted those for me.