Jean On Jean - "Tonight"
I was sitting in the library today trying to complete an assignment when I noticed something. The table at which I was sitting was covered with inscriptions such as “CD <3s AR" and "Hillary & Ryan: 8/27 - infinity." I always thought this was a tradition that only kids in junior high and high school (possibly) participated in. That is not to say that it's reserved for only those below the age of 16 or so. I'm not condemning it or trying to suggest that it's somehow silly.
Maybe professing love for one another via carving names into the wooden table of the library is just a way to kill time, to avoid studying for that political science test you have in about five hours. It's down to the wire, but, hey, she digs you, you dig her (or vice versa) and if you fail your test, she still loves you -- she carved it into the table, which has to tell you something.
I started thinking maybe, just maybe, these people are realizing that in only a short bit of time they will be graduating into the real world. It's possible that this simple little carving is a way for them to feel that sense of youth that they grew out of years ago. Carving their love for one another into a table might just be their way of feeling like kids again, escaping that encroaching sense of having to grow up.
Photo credit: Archer's Eye, pic of the love tree of Pahala
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