Nathan Bloom - Class Reading #3

Turner and Turner discuss Pilgrimage as a Liminoid phenomenon in their book, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture. I remember this discussion from class and it makes me think of myself as a college student. I feel very liminal just a pilgrim must feel. Pilgrims are in between their old life and any revelations they may have and their new life after pilgrimage. While pilgrimaging they are still here on earth so to speak but not really in the "real world." The concept of communitas applies on the trails but not so much in the "Real World" As a college student I too feel very liminal. I am no longer living with my parents and am working to pay my own bills, but at the same time I dont have a real full time job, nor do I have any thoughts of starting a family and their is a good chance that upon graduation if I get job offers outside of Newport News then I will move to take one of those jobs. I am in between being under my parents wing and the real world. Its a funny thing to think about that college is not considered the "real world" and when friends graduate we all say, "good luck in the real world." So college is a journey that I should make the best of.