Everyone else seems to have outgrown camp. I haven't.
I wish I had. I wish camp wasn't my favorite place in the world. I wish I wasn't so blue for a place that is, to many people, a lost cause.
I totally understand people's reasons for not returning, but I don't think I'm ready to go just yet. I don't want my last memories of camp to be ones of crying, liability issues, pee laundry and pills. I don't want to be remembered as the rarely-seen, mondo-bitchy, inept health officer who was a horrible mentor. I know I can do better. I need one more good shot at a job I know I'll love with the kids I just haven't been able to shake.
It'll probably come back and bite me in the ass, but I have a hard time believing that the passion I feel for this place is purposeless. I have to do something, anything. I can't leave on such a sour note. I need my swan song.
Disagree away!
I am become Death
13 years ago
3 comments:
You could try another camp. The same sort of people (like you, I mean) are working at other camps.
Let's just take all the good people and make a new camp. Camp Oh-Eh? Anyone? Anyone?
What would you do if you went back, doesn't sound like you want to be a health officer again. Why do you want to go, what is it that you value from the place? Can't you find that thing of value else ware? Is that thing of value worth putting up with the other stuff?
As a person who has a love/hate relationship with camp, I can tell you very few of the things I loved had anything to do with that particular place. They are easily found else ware.
cdl
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