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What Would My Life Have Been Like If My Parents Had Let Me Go Away to College and Live In A Dorm
Without a doubt I was overly protected in my opinion, but even still, I did want to go away to college. That meant of course living in a dorm. My father strenuously objected and wouldn't even listen to all the information I had collected. That refusal to allow me to grow up, had me wondering throughout the years, what would my life have been like if my parents had let me go away to college and live in a dorm.
I watch movies and see kids leaving home to go to college and of course, they get to live in a dorm. I have spoken with women who got to do that. Many had a great time and many still have friendships with people they met at school or were there dorm-mates.
Quite frankly, I absolutely believe I would have been wiser in my choices, particularly picking a husband had I lived in a dorm. I would have had endless girlfriends and our conversations about boys and being in love and eventually marriage, I think would have helped me be more aware.
Having a learning problem may have been discovered early on and perhaps my dorm mates or at least some of them may have questioned why I was having problems and either would have helped or suggested I go to a counselor.
I am positive I would have eaten junk food but also would have seen how people eat to keep slim and my lifelong weight problem may have stopped being an issue I've lived with my entire adult life.
In retrospect my parents were wonderful, yet all too protective. Even at my age today, something on television will trigger a memory of things I wasn't allowed to do, places I wasn't allowed to go to and people I wasn't allowed to be friends with. I just wasn't allowed to be a child. I still wish my parents had been more open to letting me be the kid instead of insisting I be a grownup too quickly.
What did happen was I had an opportunity to go for the summer to Los Angeles when I completed my freshman year in college and, wound up never going back home.
Was it better that way or worse?
For me, it was fun for a long while. For my parents. Well, they both wound up alone and we rarely ever saw each other.
Would I have stayed home had they let me go to college. Perhaps.
In the long run, what would my life have been had I been allowed to go away to college and live in a dorm. Better or worse?
Who knows!
Article submitted Friday, August 14, 2009 & read 191 times.
Carol Yourist, who for right now lives in Texas, is a unique and talented person. At the tender age of 6, she began sewing when her grandmother introduced her to a Singer treadle sewing machine. That instigated an interest in many artistic endeavors including writing. Carol has taken classes including on line, to furthur her interests and progress in her search for a better life.
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