Jillian Daniel - Image and Pilgrimage blog 15

In Turner's book "Image and Pilgriamge," he discusses the "rites de passage" or the "rites of transition." There are three phases to this concept; separation, and aggregation. The first phase represents detaching oneself from the group they're normally a part of. The second phase is the state when the subject passes through a realm that has very little attributes from his past. He's in a transition state between where's been and where he's going in life. The last stage when teh subject returns to their normal social life. I feel like I can relate my own life to these right of transtion. My separation stage would consist of me leaving home and going to college. Being at college is the first time I have to fiend for myself and be responsible without being forced to be. The second stage, I'd say, is my current state. As of now, I am without the influence of my parents and friends from highschool. All of the rules that limited me no longer do. I'm currently in the process of finding out what I want to do with my life and how i'm going to act. I assume that I'd transfer into the aggregation stage when I graduate college. I'll return home (probably to mooch off of my mom for a while until i can save up mone). I feel like it will be at that time that I'll realize how much I have changed by going through my symbolic pilgrammage.