Day 3 - 306 -- Looking Out from Inside

It was a cool and wet start to the day, but there were breaks in the cloud by supper time. Roofers seem to have finished the job today. It did mean another day of sheltering the furry critter in the office. Due to a lengthy list of student meetings between lectures today, I had to crate him under the desk and check to ensure allergies were not present in anyone popping into the office for one of those chats. Over my lunch time and for the hour between meetings at the end of the day, he was allowed to wander around the office with the door closed. I felt sad a few times when I was discussing the assignment with a student and his arm would lunge out of the crate door -- out up to the armpit. It seemed there was a desperate need to connect with the world outside the crate -- maybe trying to open the door to get free.

Pondering those moments from today, it seemed to parallel situations that I've experienced in my life. I'm standing there and people see me and hear me, but they choose to ignore me -- pretend that I'm not really there. This isn't just a high school thing, but a workplace thing with people old enough to know better <sigh>.  We all can feel disconnected with the world around us without anything quite so blatant occurring. As social beasts, I'm sure we want to be part of things -- to whatever degree we are comfortable, that is. (just the introvert in me shouting 'whoa' <grin>).

A song lyric that seems to fit the ideas of today's meandering thoughts, deals with things in a different order than I was thinking of things today -- being on the outside looking in instead of being on the inside looking out. From either location, the feelings are likely similar. Enjoy!

The Outside -- Taylor Swift