Joseph Schneider
ENG-101
6/17/18
Living in The Comfort of Social Interaction
The place where I live, I assume that when most people think about where they live they think of a city or a town just some place. So, I could talk about my home town of Rochester, MA I could describe the corn fields the cranberry bogs the small community. I could talk about the smell of the pollen in the summer air or how it looks when it snows outside. I could mention the noise of the tree frogs calling each other at night or driving late at night and listening to the roaring of all the spring peepers that is sometime louder than the engine of your car. I could talk about the weird smell of the bogs in the morning when the sprinklers are on or the breeze from the pond when you’re out fishing. However, I don’t consider this town to be the place I live. I googled the definition of “live” and one of the definitions was “to continue to have life; remain alive”. When I think about where I continue to have life where I remain alive I think about the people I surround myself with I think about the stories we share the laughs we make all the good times we have and that’s the place I live. I live in the comfort of social interaction.
If I had to describe it as a place I would use my friend’s house as an example. Imagine you’re sitting around a fire, its smoky smell and its warm air brushing your legs it’s hard not to become entranced in its orangey reddish flames. It’s never cold because the summer nights are cool but not too cold and you’re distracted by conversation. Talking about baseball or basketball bragging about who thinks their team is going to win. I’m not big on sports but there’s always so much passion in my friend’s voices when they talk about it there’s so much energy in their sentences and you can’t help but get worked up too. You can look up and see all the stars glistening in the night sky, there’s talking and laughing, and the music is always loud. It’s never silent there’s always a noise. You’re never bored because it’s always easy to fit in. You take a look to right or your left and all it takes is a single sentence to start a conversation that could last an hour a conversation you could remember for the rest of your life. There’s no stress of the things you think about when your mind has nothing else to concentrate on. Instead you’re enjoying yourself you’re smiling, laughing, or even yelling at some points just so someone across the fire can hear you, or just because what you’re talking about requires some dramatization. There’s never any negativity it’s all positive there’s always new faces, new laughs, new smiles. I count this as the place I live because of the feeling I get when I surround myself with a lot of people, the best way to describe it is just a vibe. This vibe fills your body and drowns out all the negativity of your previous week. It puts a smile on your face and warms your heart it makes you feel at home.
I look around and see so many people enjoying themselves having a good time. Not caring about whether their boss is being a dick to them or how their college grades are. They’re smiling because they’re living in that moment and that’s where I live that’s where I’m alive not the house I live in or the town I’m from or this state. The place where I live is where I’m surrounded by fellow people having a good time.