By: Mitchell Hodge
Most Common Place to Trip and Fall on Campus
The absolutely amazing Holy Cross campus provides us with beautifully grown oaks and truly stunning scenery throughout the school. A trip or fall can be an eye-opening experience, filled with euphoric moments, or surprisingly painful as you plummet down to the solid ground of reality.
Trips can be induced anywhere; perhaps you may trip in a seemingly normal place, under the oaks for example. With elegant branches hanging over to offer protection during your journey, however, these same pesky branches could be your demise as your foot catches, and you are sent sprawling towards the ground, momentarily met with peace as you find solace for the imminent pain as a rush of air hits your face. You are jerked into the peak of the fall, a euphoric experience that dominates control over your senses. People who may be simply enjoying their lunch would have no idea of your embarrassing trip and fall. Gazing into the well-aged oaks allures one to appreciate their sturdy construction, and their devotion, as they are unfazed in the brutal winds inviting you to find pleasure in nature. The presence of the divine through the Grotto appeals to the pieces of our conscious longing to explore the mysteries of life, rainwater propelling itself through the canal, with carefully placed stones complimenting the jagged rocky beauty. However these rocks---quite dangerous, with uneven and sometimes slippery surfaces, they are a hazard to all who wish to gaze upon the majesties under the oaks. How about that gravel you ask? I’ve slipped there myself, although I am quite silly and find myself tripping anywhere I can, often simply over my own feet only to be graced with the pleasure of the experience, those moments of beauty until you finally come down straight into the ground. Palms pierced by small rocks as I manage to regain control, blood trickling from my new injury, I found myself being laughed at by my classmates, my friends, however, I find myself laughing with them.