In-Class Interview

It’s all about the youth; but maybe that is just because she is one.

For some reason I always find it interesting that everyone has a mom and dad. Whether or not these people played much of a role in your life, or have any influence over you today, varies to extremes; but regardless, you need both to be in this world. The silly fact of science fascinates me so much because we, all of us wandering post-teen early-twenty-year-olds, are finally becoming our own people. The choices we make and who we are no longer directly reflects our parents, and legally, if we please, we can finally have nothing to do with them. But as I look around me, that does not seem to be the case. We want to stay closer to home, perhaps because we’ve realized, if we’re fortune to have had them shape us to where we are, they’re probably pretty great to have around.

Lula Brown sits across from me Indian Style, half interested in her responses and eyes darting around. Her face only lights up at her own words three times in the conversation, and each time was as she mentioned childhood and the people that make her home. Her she can distinctly recall the song her Dad played through the walls, and for this reason alone it will always be her favorite song. Lula knows she would not be the music enthusiast she is, if it had not been for his musician character stringing her along. Both of her parents are expressive individuals, not afraid to do things their way; as she grew up close to the city, was home schooled until grade five, and raised on a macrobiotic diet, she accredits them for producing the self-awareness and independence she feels today.

Independent she is definitely, and artistic; with an eye and appreciation for the different facets of art and the feelings they create. Before University Lula spent a year in Florence, Italy, where she fell in love with pace and aesthetic of Tuscany’s romantic city. She tells me with conviction that the youth culture is most important these days; since as we all know, everyone wants to be young. But if you ask me, I think possibly Lula understands the beauty found in age, and can appreciate the notion of just taking your time. Because she doesn’t hesitate to answer that growing old is not a fear, and her dream day would be spent in Paris reading and looking at art from the past hundred years.