My “personal odyssey” occurred relatively recently, this past summer while I was at a sleepaway camp in New Hampshire. The last year you are eligible to come, the summer before your sophomore year, you stay in a cabin off the main camp called Cabin 12, which holds great significance due to the fact that you’re the oldest on campus, and closer to a counselor then a camper. Being engaged, on time to activities, and having extreme enthusiasm to an almost unbearable point. I was exposed to a concept, one in which you see more clearly when you grow up. This idea is embodied in the quote, “fake it ‘till you make it.”
About two weeks into the summer, everyone is still trying to find their place in the “community,” and the adjustment between carefree-camper and responsible elder, in a sense, can be harsh. It wasn’t until the women running the camp, Susan, sat us down and told us, “fake it ‘till you make it,” that everyone started to see the importance of our position. Not only do you uphold the values and traditions of camp, but you are responsible for the happiness and success of everyone around you. Sitting in commons (the permanent name for the living room space) after dinner, watching “Glee” on DVD, eating lollipops, we seem as if we were the most carefree people you had ever met, oblivious to the awakening moments to come. When Susan would come up, if she ever came up, was obviously an omen for bad news …show more content…
Being told, literally, to even if you’re not happy to lie for the good of everyone else, has an immediate, maturing effect to it. To me, moving from childhood to adulthood is the transition away from having things done by someone else for your individual good, and closer to you, personally, being put in the position where you are doing anything, regardless of anything else, to make someone else happy, as well as putting their happiness before your
About two weeks into the summer, everyone is still trying to find their place in the “community,” and the adjustment between carefree-camper and responsible elder, in a sense, can be harsh. It wasn’t until the women running the camp, Susan, sat us down and told us, “fake it ‘till you make it,” that everyone started to see the importance of our position. Not only do you uphold the values and traditions of camp, but you are responsible for the happiness and success of everyone around you. Sitting in commons (the permanent name for the living room space) after dinner, watching “Glee” on DVD, eating lollipops, we seem as if we were the most carefree people you had ever met, oblivious to the awakening moments to come. When Susan would come up, if she ever came up, was obviously an omen for bad news …show more content…
Being told, literally, to even if you’re not happy to lie for the good of everyone else, has an immediate, maturing effect to it. To me, moving from childhood to adulthood is the transition away from having things done by someone else for your individual good, and closer to you, personally, being put in the position where you are doing anything, regardless of anything else, to make someone else happy, as well as putting their happiness before your