time warp

a table for ten at a swanky sushi restaurant in bridgeport, instead of the usual shari's run at 2am. our party flowed in one by one through the restaurant, taking their seats. slowly our numbers began to grow to fill the table from one end to the other. some new faces, mostly familiar ones. the meal was unremarkable, but the company took me back in time. what used to be talk about exams and art projects and our futures morphed into talks about real careers and houses and babies - we finally were in the future. honestly, i remember thinking that we all look so much healthier. it must be the amount of sleep we get now vs. the number of all-nighters that used to alter our lives. in my seat i felt stuck in an awkward gap between the present day and wanting my college life back. wishing things had never changed. some had reason to believe that life had only gotten better after leaving the black-and-orange; others weren't sure what to believe. for the others, life has been stalled. i think everybody felt a jolt of reality when pushed back towards their own cars. we've only known each other in one capacity for so long - as students. now, we have to learn to know each other as adults. ultimately, we need to learn to know and see ourselves as adults first.