Karma.. Its a funny thing. Its very true.. what goes around.. comes around. I’m sure all of us have witnessed Karma in one form or another.. whether its the cheating boy friend getting a taste of his own medicine.. or seeing your buddy on crutches when the week before he was making fun of “gimps.” I actually had a little bit of karma come my way last night.. But before i tell this story i must set the stage.. When i was a little kid.. i was.. well, a little bit out of control.. ok i was a lotta bit out of control. i was a compulsive liar, i fought with everyone around me.. and i had so much energy my teachers probably thought i sat down with a spoon and ate a bag of sugar every morning.. the biggest thing i was known for was my fighting.. i was in the principals office alot.. i even had my own personal chair with my name sewn into the back. Its not a good thing if the principal of the school knows your home number and your parents cell and work numbers by heart.. but mine did. Everytime i walked through the doors i would get a look from my principal that said “again?” Don’t get me wrong.. i hardly ever picked a fight.. i don’t remember a lot of them.. but my dad told me that 90 percent of my fights were because some popular kid would pick on the geek or a fat kid.. so i would beat up the popular kid in defense of the underdog. So although i fought.. it was for a good reason.. well good 90 percent of the time.. the other 10 percent.. well.. thats where my story from last night falls into place. My mom works with a girl i went to school with. Her name is Erin. a couple weeks ago i took Erin out and while we were hanging we ran into a friend of hers. I knew i knew her from somewhere.. but i couldn’t put a name to her face.. and even when she told me her name was jessie.. i didn’t know where i had met her before.. well the night ended and we hung a couple more times since then. there was about a week or so when me and Erin did not talk.. i didn’t kow why.. i knew i was busy and she had a guy she was dating so i thought nothing of it. well last night i finally got a hold of her and she came over to hang. When she got over here she asked me if i had remembered jessie.. i told her i knew the face but didn’t know where from.. she laughed and said.. “well.. after we had hung out that week, i went to church and ran into her again. she asked me how it was hanging out with you and i said it was good..” then she got a weird look on her face.. and she continued her story, “then she told me that she thought you were cute.. but the only thing she can remember about you is what happend between you two in 2nd grade..” i sat there and thought.. hmm.. 2nd grade? her face did look more familiar now.. i had gone to elementary with her and hadn’t seen her since.. but i had no idea of what happend between me and a girl in 2nd grade.. i mean.. did i break her heart? cause i wasn’t exactly a heart breaker.. girls had Kooties til i was a freshman.. so i asked.. “wait.. what happend in 2nd grade?” she laughed.. “you don’t remember?” “no” i said.. so she went on “well i guess after recess everyone ran to the drinking fountain and there was a huge line.. jessie tried to butt in front of you and you grabbed her.. turned her around and punched her in the stomach.” my face dropped in awe of my actions.. i couldn’t believe i decked a girl for butting in line.. no wonder jessie hates me.. to make matters worse jessie told erin in detail how bad it hurt and how bad she cried… who would have thought that my tiny fists would one day effect my dating situation.. Who knows how many girls i come in contact with know this jessie girl.. i’m never going to be able to date anyone in utah now cause they are in fear of being in a abusive relationship. i guess all i can do is hope jessie moves to another country.. til then.. who knows if i’ll ever get a date.. but who is jessie to ruin my dating life.. it was her fault.. butting in line should not be tolerated..
College..
Best 4 years of your life.. well.. 13 if you are my brother. A time to kick back and just enjoy life. College students never fail to amaze me with their abilities to make the best of what they’ve got. The creativity of a avg college student far surpasses anyone else on the planet. since i’ve been in college i’ve seen a ordinary garden hose and a paper funnel turned into a last minute beer bong. ive seen an apple and a can of beer turned into an emergency weed bong… we all know most college students drink alcohol and do drugs.. but they’re creativity goes outside that box as well… i’ve seen houses turned into diving boards.. no.. they didn’t just jump off the house they made a HOME MADE extention so they could get close enough to the pool to jump, i’ve seen duct tape, a broom stick and a sink turned into the best kitchen baseball game you’ve ever seen. i’ve seen 14 people get into a normal size SUV so they could save money on gas for a 30 min trip. Whatever it may be.. whether its 7 tv’s being ”rewired” taking up a lot of time, 50 dollars worth of wires, cables and electrical tape so they could play the biggest game of Halo you’ve ever seen. All the way to traveling 45 min out of their way to take a tarp off a feild at 3 am so the rain would flood the opposing teams feild.. giving them the day off. College students are the best at what they do. I’ve composed a list of the pro’s and con’s of being a college student.. if you can think of anymore please feel free to comment..
1. Being a student-athlete
Pro: lets face it. student athletes get the most girls. you can argue that all day but you can’t argue they throw the best party’s. being a student athlete is your ticket to many things. aside from getting college paid for, getting the most girls, and throwing the best, we’ll call them, “social events” student athletes are on a love/hate relationship with teachers. when i first got to college my team had a list of each class you could take. the list described which teachers were fair which ones were rude and which ones gave you an A cause you were a baseball player. the benifits of being a student athlete are sometimes un-real.
Con: Being an athlete requires a lot of sacrafice. with such rewards as i’ve listed you also get the other end. trying to balance a scheldule of school, practice, church, studying, lifting and sometimes even work can really take its toll on a kid. not to even mention if you have a girl friend or not..its hard work to keep everything up to par and its not easy to please everyone. also, sometimes the only history teacher available got cut from his high school team and is looking to vow revenge on every athlete that comes into his class. that sucks cause thats the class you need to pass to be eligible.. the no caring prick always seems to have a pop quiz when you’re gone for a game.
Advice: have a schedule. try to balance everything. have times sorted out so you know when you need to be where and what you need to be doing. sit down every sunday night and mark the things you HAVE to do that week.. pretty soon it will become habbit.. and the stress of rememebering things will disappear. As for the teacher.. the best thing you can do is follow the list of good teachers.. but if all else fails. do your best to impress him early. hand in your essay early, have it in a binder, laminated.. impressing him early will allow you to get a break later.
2. living on your own
Pro: Living on your own is FANTASTIC.. no curfew, no one to tell you to clean up. you can make your own rules and do all the things you said you would do different all the years you lived with your parents. you are your own king.. you only answer to yourself and FINALLY you have that long awaited freeedom you’ve been waiting for.
Con: all that B.S. i just listed that every freshmen believes dies out in a week. Responsibility starts to set in. Although you don’t have a curfew MOST of the time you’re in at a resonable time anyway. When your roommate doesn’t clean up after themselves it makes you so mad they are such a slob. And.. as much as you hate it.. all the things you said you’d do different becomes a part of your life. you start to act and talk just like your parents. you try to fight it but the more you fight it the more you realize you are just a mini version of your mom or dad.
Advice: just wear it.. don’t worry.. it happens to all of us. You can try to fight it and rebel.. but you’ll eventually go back to everything you’ve been taught.. the more you are away from your home.. the more you start to take what you’ve learned from home and apply it in your life.. i know it sucks.. mom and dad were right.. but i promise their isn’t much you can do..
3. Party’s
Pro: Girl athletes.. mmmm.. there is nothing better than a hot female athlete all dressed up sexy for a party.. ahh screw it, even if they don’t play sports you still have the female groupies. They are the girls who just hang around the athletes due to which season it is (EX: fall they hang around football. winter, basketball etc.) If the female athlete you are trying to impress doesn’t show or isn’t interested (if in season) groupies are a great fall back in the make out department.
Con: Girl athletes.. and by that i mean softball players. don’t get me wrong a girl who can throw or hit is sexy but lets not lie to ourselves. 90% of college softball players are dikes.. i’m not talking about lesbians.. cause lesbians are cool.. dikes are butch hair cutting, body building, man hating dikes.. nothing can ruin your game like a dike.. cause girls listen to other girls.. and while your trying to talk to the hot full back on the soccer team the dike takes her into a bathroom and tells her how you are going to treat her bad and take all of her rights away..
Advice: when planning a party make sure the whole school knows.. get as many people there as possible. then, the day of the party call the head dike (most of the time she’s the catcher) and let her know you are going to a club instead. dikes hate clubs and won’t go to see if you show.. have the party as planned.. dike free.
I’m sure there is many more things to college.. these are only 3 i came up with.. i’ll probably post more. and if you have any feel free to share. as for now.. its 11:00 and its time for bed.. told ya your parents rub off (damn it!)
I hate it.. i’m sitting here reading Derek Jeters book and staring at the screen for almost an hour.. wondering what bit of information i can write down to atleast touch someone. i know no one reads this. but hopefully one day someone will randomly click on my site and something i said will touch them. As i sit reading jeters book i feel inspired to write.. i don’t know if it is a true feeling from my gut.. or just sheer jealousy that jeter has his own book about how he’s already accomplished everything i’ve ever wanted to do.. either way i have to write something.. i guess thats something i could talk about. following your heart. Its not something i’m great at. but its something i strive to do. If i learned one thing when i was on a mission for my church.. it was to follow your heart. There were so many times i was talking to someone.. or writing a letter to someone.. and i felt inspired to say or write something.. if i was humble enough to listen.. even if it was something as simple as “how was your day”.. it made all the differnce in the world. your heart is like a map.. it talks to you and trys to tell you what to do.. but it speaks very softly.. we have to be patient and very in tune with who we are to hear it.. And i promise you.. if you are in tune.. it talks to you alot.. and it is ALWAYS right…If you have ever seen the movie..the sandlot. The “great bambino” says something very true. he tells benny.. “follow your heart kid.. and you’ll never go wrong” i guess by making the wrong decision that means you didn’t follow your heart.. knowing that my parents would probably tell you i never have followed my heart.. but seriously. i try. i know that i haven’t been in tune with who i am lately.. i think i am trying to transfer from one phase of my life to the other.. its hard.. but i’m progressing.. i just have to follow the right path. God always puts us on a path.. sometimes we think we are so smart.. we think we know where we are going and we take a short cut. by doing so we get way off course. Then our father has to repave a road and put us onto a whole new one.. giving us the best opportunity’s we have for each choice we make. and ofcourse.. we are so smart.. we know where we are going.. right? no.. once again we get more lost than a midget in a concert. Remember when i talked about my dad saying “you have to lose yourself to find yourself?” the path has a lot to do with that. we all wonder off.. and thats when you can look around and say.. how in the hell did i end up here?.. with the experiences and knowledge that you gain.. you can put up an armor to never fall into the same trap again. so with each slip off the old highway.. grow.. its your chance. many people live by the saying “you never learn by doing something right” and thats true.. but we must also strive to actually learn when we do wrong.. and change for the better. If you are that person i’m trying to touch.. please.. if you learn one thing from this site.. learn this… be in tune with what you feel is right… if you do that.. everything will just fall in place.
And now that i think of it.. My heart tells me that Jeter can kiss my ass. he can have his pro career… his world series rings.. and his book.. i’ll start my pro career.. and write a book.. and as for the series… Within 6 years.. i’ll come in to pitch.. and strike his ass out to win.. here comes a 1-2 slider in the dirt derek.. go fishin
