Child getting cold feet

JHS
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:36:42 +0000

I don’t think this has anything to do with age or experience. It’s a big step for everyone (except maybe boarding school students).

I was 18 when I left for college. I had spent a year abroad in high school, and 5 or 6 whole summers at sleepaway camps. I had traveled on my own. I still sobbed the night before I left: I knew that, unlike those previous experiences, this time I was never really going to come home again, and that it would be at least a decade before I had a stable life again. That wasn’t all quite true, but it was pretty close.