Adult Discussions

One of my biggest suppressed fears is that all the good things that happen in life only really happen in college, or other manifestations of 'fake' life, like summer camp or gap years or with anonymous people in on public transit or something. I've discussed this a little previously (see: glory days).

One such thing that I was afraid would disappear in my 'real' life would be interesting, engaging, and thought provoking questions. The kind you have with your roommates until 3am, or the kind you have with total strangers you know you'll never see again, or that happen because you and everyone you know is reading lots of interesting books with big ideas and is up on the news, and so things just get discussed and thought about.

I am happy to report that this is not the case. My husband and I had over some friends tonight, and we had over some other friends yesterday. And in both cases, we talked about topics including but not limited to: healthcare lobbyists, inequality in America, moral dilemmas in charity, the moral dilemmas of producing new ideas, nuclear weapons, neurology, the scientific method, is sociology a real discipline or not?, storytelling in modern society, inception:dream or not a dream, other christopher nolan movies, quentin tarantino movies, centralization and de-centralization in the LDS church, and cat stories (haha).

Not only that, but my husband and I have talked about all this times 1000 things more. Good, thought provoking conversation does not end with college. Not if you don't want it to.

I think that if you miss something, there is a good chance that other people out there miss it too. Like how everyone misses arrested development. and just like we can watch the re-runs and hope that they will finally get around to making that blasted movie and that it will actually live up to the hype/pressure, you can bring back those things you miss with other people, too.