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... (my parents code name, for when I laid on the couch and had no intention of moving for the entire day) and watch TV until I slowly fell asleep again. This practice progresses the entire way through my senior year of high school. As high school came to a conclusion I knew more practice was needed before I enter the grand arena of chilling, “college.” My last summer before college much time was being spent just laid out by my pool sipping cold drinks, this was all practice for what was to come. Chilling at the time was just very different. While being a student in lower education and still being very involved in sports, chilling came more as a prize. It was more of a chance to relax and just kick back while enjoying not having something to do at all time. After graduating High School my entire prospective of chilling began to change. During my last summer before college I had quit my job and taken the summer off to travel and spend a fat sack of cash I had raked up during the previous years of work. On these trips I would just mainly be chilling. It first started with Senior Week 2003 in Ocean City, Maryland. A much chill trip spent mostly by sipping cold beer, listening to loud music, enjoying the freedom away from parents, and letting the sun rays hit all over us on the beach during games of beach volleyball. This trip was a very good opportunity to chill after a twelve year caged education had commenced. Though, being underage and simply stupid avoiding the notorious Ocean City Police and the STD’s from dirty girls at the clubs put a halt on the absolute act of chilling and hadn’t let my full potential shine. Next, came a graduation present from my aunt, a trip to tour Western Europe and Ireland. Another very new and cool experience with some chilling but, still not the amount I believed I was capable of. This epiphany of chilling didn’t really occur in full potential until about a month later when college arrived. Before I write on the affect of college on my chilling, I think it would be appropriate to describe exactly how my chilling works. Chilling to me is both an act and a state of mind. When I chill it’s not jut being lazy and getting fat, there is so much more to it than that. I usually will either watch some TV, read a book, break out the acoustic and strum a song or two. Other times I’ll sit down in my chill chair with pockets to hold food, drink, remote control, and shot glass if needed, just kick back and relax for hours on end listening to some Blink or Brand New and letting myself just think about things. Indulging in my act of chilling sometimes gets a lot of work done that otherwise wouldn’t have gotten done, for example I’ll make phone calls, remember things that I needed to get done a long time ago that I still hadn’t, or just simply just sip on my daily recommended consumption of water. This at least was the truth behind my chilling before college. When I leaped into my first semester of college it didn’t take long to realize that I had finally entered the grand spectacle of chilling. College has given me the opportunity to get away from my parents physically and mentally. This opportunity has given me the chance to sit around and not always have something do, due to my parents keeping me from being inactive. Also in college many other people take up in the hobby if chilling and together we all just encourage...