Showing posts with label Wordsworth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wordsworth. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2011

home is where you don't actually have any food, because you're always traveling.

Favorite story I somehow neglected to mention.

Sitting on the plane, people still boarding. Girl behind me on her cell phone with her mother, having a FULL ON MELTDOWN. Crying, freaking out. About what you ask? Oh you know, the usual. Feeling like her job doesn't give her enough freedom, thinking about moving to a new city, 17th century romanticism.....

wait, what?

oh yes. I'm not sure of the exact details, but this young lady (probably about my own age) is apparently having a complete mental breakdown on an airplane out because her line of work has something to do with 17th century romanticism, and she thinks there's a lot more opportunity in studying 18th century literature, but she's "just not an 18th century girl."

I guess that might make me cry too. Especially since... well, I mean, wasn't Romanticism kind of... only an 18th/early 19th century thing? I've been out of college a few years but ... I don't think I ever actually came across the phrase "17th century romantics." I think this girl's problems might be more serious than she realizes.