i don’t know how much you still resonate with this post but i love it so much! on the point of the “short intense social burst” programs and the type of conversations you tend to have in these environments, i would even add that another way it can be “dangerous” is how difficult it is for you to interact with people outside of this circle for a while. i’m glad we go over this phenomenon at the end of camps with the “why everything we teach at [insert camp here] is wrong” class, but looking back i recognize just the class absolutely wasn’t enough for me to not feel A LOT the transition “from camp to life”. i still think camp was a positive, life-changing experience for me but god i didn’t realize how much it negatively(?) affected my social life at home until i read this and your post about “sparkly-ness” in the jc blog and let them sink in :v
i don’t know how much you still resonate with this post but i love it so much! on the point of the “short intense social burst” programs and the type of conversations you tend to have in these environments, i would even add that another way it can be “dangerous” is how difficult it is for you to interact with people outside of this circle for a while. i’m glad we go over this phenomenon at the end of camps with the “why everything we teach at [insert camp here] is wrong” class, but looking back i recognize just the class absolutely wasn’t enough for me to not feel A LOT the transition “from camp to life”. i still think camp was a positive, life-changing experience for me but god i didn’t realize how much it negatively(?) affected my social life at home until i read this and your post about “sparkly-ness” in the jc blog and let them sink in :v
mmm ty!