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floweranzaPosting more writing! I usually go to the Writing Center in my school during the Study Hall period, and this is the kind of stuff that usually comes out - little drabbles that put things that irk, amuse, or fascinate you into words.
Just one.
(a study in claustrophobia?)
Walking down the stairways in my school feels as if you are being packed like cattle. The lines are strict; to the right/left going down and to the left/right going up, depending on the perspective, and breaking this unspoken rule is akin to a terrible crime. You end up using them about five times a day, on a loose average. When you do, you don't notice the long walls surrounding this incongruous trap. But when you are alone (in the hush of classtime when students are not boisterously making their inching ways up and down, pressed tight), you notice those long walls. They press. They surround. They are immense and they go from the ceiling to the floor, and those stairs are suddenly a mousetrap, trapping you. This is one case where it is better that you do not see, because something so simple (a stairway in a school, how can it go wrong!) is enough to drive anyone insane.
Just one.
(a study in claustrophobia?)
Walking down the stairways in my school feels as if you are being packed like cattle. The lines are strict; to the right/left going down and to the left/right going up, depending on the perspective, and breaking this unspoken rule is akin to a terrible crime. You end up using them about five times a day, on a loose average. When you do, you don't notice the long walls surrounding this incongruous trap. But when you are alone (in the hush of classtime when students are not boisterously making their inching ways up and down, pressed tight), you notice those long walls. They press. They surround. They are immense and they go from the ceiling to the floor, and those stairs are suddenly a mousetrap, trapping you. This is one case where it is better that you do not see, because something so simple (a stairway in a school, how can it go wrong!) is enough to drive anyone insane.
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Date: 2007-02-13 09:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-15 04:59 pm (UTC)I haven't reached the point of feeling claustrophobic (because I'm not), but it definitely makes me feel the concept of it, which is disconcerting enough all by itself.
I'm plenty acrophobic, though, and this school has a large window that gives you a lovely view all the way down to the ground at the end of one corridor... D: