Blog 36

My topic is about invisibility.  I obviously have not been invisible before so I cannot write about a time when I was, but I can write about a time when I felt invisible.  There are so many times when I have been in a new environment and not known anyone.  When this happens to me, I become very shy.  I am not a very outgoing person until I have been around someone for a while.  At these times I feel invisible or sometimes I wish I really was invisible.  This way I could know what is going on, but I do not have to participate and try and fit in.  This sounds really lame because it is, but it is something I struggle with that I wish I could get over.  Coming to college was a big step with this.  I personally think I did pretty well for myself but I did not do as well as others.  Not too long ago I went out with my roommate and our friend, Maria, from down the hall to dinner.  She is always in the room so we had hung out many times, but I was never my really social self that I am around my hometown friends.  But when we went to dinner this night I was finally being myself and being really outgoing because I finally felt comfortable with both of them.  At one point Maria was like "Laura, what is with you? You are like crazy today."  My response to this was "this is social Laura.  She has her days when she is really outgoing and today is that day."  So instead of making myself invisible I need to start making better first impressions and stop being so shy. 

Now if I was actually invisible for a day, I would probably mess with my friends.  I would not try and get back at people that I have had problems with.  I would not mind trying to find out some certain things, being like a fly on the wall, but I think it would be more fun to creep out my friends.  How funny would it be to hit them in the back of the head and no one else is in the room?  They would get so freaked out.  I mean I would not want to scare them to the point they need help, but it would be fun to just mess with their heads.  Also if I was invisible for a day I think I would definitely steal something.  I know that sounds bad but it would just be something small.  It is just something that I wish I could do once and get away with it, just to be able to say I did it.  I would have to put a lot of thought into this if I really did have the oppurtunity to be invisible for a day, but these are just some general ideas that I think would be fun.