Robert Lannes: Transitional Phase of Life

     As everybody grows up, they live in a place they can call home.  A place that your family lives, and is somewhere where you can go no matter what.  Its a sense of consistency in your life.  But when you get older, at some point you move out of this house, permanently, or temporarily.  I personally, like all of my peers, are in this transitional phase of life.  I live on campus, and my living arrangement will change every year, lacking consistency.  I go home over breaks, which is also not consistent.  I am seeking out a degree so I can get a job, acquire an income, and hopefully regain the consistency of living.  Some might say that I am in a limenal phase of life, in transition, dealing with things that I am not used to.  I have formed a watered down sense of communitas by joining a fraternity, and living in the greek house.  Though these things aren't the same and being on a pilgrimage, I can find elements of it in my daily life.