MICAtharsis. The Maximum Life.

There are some places where you come to find a living, there are some places you are showered with joy. There are some places where you come to find memories, there are some where you just create them. There are some places where one comes with a baggage to empty, there are some places where you take more souvenirs to carry than you had.

MICA is one place where one comes running away from the outside world, desperately in search of a shelter, a roof, a home. And then there are some who come here just to get out in the sun, taking flight from their nests for the first time. But this all hardly matters once you are here. The sun shines so bright here that it blinds you if you try to look beyond, the moon so bright that it floods the canvas with silver, the walls so high that not even Pandora’s troubles can trespass.

We come here with a bag of our own sorrows, to purge amongst these red bricks. We laugh, we cry, we stifle out tears, we hide our smiles, we become one. We are all generalizations here. How many times have each one of us laughed at one of friend’s jokes through tears? How many times have we laughed in fear and in despair? There is only as much a person can do, but there’s so much this place can do. We all have.

Between classes, assignments, sports, music, somewhere deep down, we drown our sorrows, purge our guilt, shatter our fear and live the dreams and happiness. It is an escapist’s paradise; you can relate to it, the concept of wanting more, of wanting better and then to find solace. You’re not you here, it is always two or more facets living here. Tearing apart and sewing together, you stand there like colossus, while your world is crumbling around you. You pick up the rumble and just start fixing it again as if it was just a small Lego house, because well, this is the Maximum Life. At the end of it all, you and your heart feel so far apart but both dance the same beat, string the same tune, paint the same picture. This is Utopia, this is MICA, this is truly, MICAtharsis.