TEXARKANA MAGAZINE
GOOD EVENING TXK COLUMN BY BAILEY GRAVITT
A s if there are not already enough questions I ask myself daily about why I am the way I am, I’ve started asking myself a new one. Why in the Sam Hill am I suddenly wide awake the very second my head hits the pillow, when I should be absolutely exhausted at the end of a long, hard day? I get overstimulated, feeling a deep desire to watch every show on Hulu, Google answers to every existential question I have, and stress about the household tasks I’ve had all afternoon to complete. I lay there with my eyes wide open, unable to fall asleep until midnight or later, and wake up dragging as I prepare to do all the same things over and over on repeat. I suppose, from what I’ve seen and heard over the years, most of us on Earth come to a moment in time when we ask ourselves, “How did I get here?” Every day we go to our same jobs, attempt the same tasks, see the same people, drive the same car, come back home after work to the same space, and go out to the same places with the same friends to waste time on the weekends. Maybe the only person in the world who doesn’t do this is Taylor Swift? But who knows?! Maybe even her life has had a monotonous
era. I mean, it seems like for all of us, at some point or another, life begins to feel like Groundhog Day . Groundhog Day actually originated from the traditional Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on February 2 and sees its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter. However, credited to the 1993 film titled Groundhog Day , starring Bill Murray, the term took on the new meaning of a person reliving the same day over and over. The film took this novelty idea and turned it into a metaphor for personal growth and self-improvement, popularizing the idea of being stuck in a time loop, for comedic effect of course. The film became so popular after its release that this somehow became the official new interpretation of the term in popular culture. Often, as young children, instead of simply enjoying the carefree luxury of our youth, the only thing we can think of is growing up. We can’t wait to be 16, so we can have our first car. We can’t wait to be 18, so we can be taken more seriously as legal adults. We can’t wait to be 21, because... well, you know. In 13 Going on 30 , the main character couldn’t wait to be 30 because,
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