Oh man...
So lets see...haven't written on here in a while. My bad. Where to begin. Hows about....
So last Thursday the almighty Johnny G.C. and the Bunnies softball team played in our third championship game in three years. We had not lost in roughly 2 1/2 years. We swept our way through the regular season and through the playoffs. Everything was in set for our assault on the CWU IM record books, BUT, alas...it was not meant to be. Johnny G.C. and the Bunnies played our worst game of softball in all my years being the player/coach. the frustration of watching our powerful team take it in the ass by a team we destroyed earlier in the season was too much to bear. Very depressing. Very depressing indeed. Oh well...we dominated the softball leagues for long enough. What better time to retire the Johnny G.C. and the Bunnies. It has been a helluva run. Many, many fond memories.
Memorial Day weekend...a rather boring time really. Going jeeping with Nash, Nate, and Zak was fun. We almost died when we were going virtually sideways on an embankment and barely escaped rolling the jeep. Nash about wet his pants I think. Seriously. But we were cool. Later, Zak's mom made her famous spaghetti. WOW...soooooooo good. No joke.
So now I am sitting here, contemplating going to the Geology 145 study session. I just realized that I DON'T have to have a 3.0 this quarter to student teach. So now I am not as worried about my grades as have been. I am just unbelievably relieved. I have been stressing over this for a long time. It is like a breath of fresh air now. A huge load has been taken off my shoulders.
*sigh*
So I was thinking about profound questions lately. One question I came up with, had me contemplating for along time. So now I present the question to you:
"If you could have one thing, what would it be?"
This question is alot deeper than one first realizes. I was thinking about it and the obvious first answers came up: a million dollars, my own island, a perfect body. But then I thought deeper and a series of serious answers came to mind. Answers like: perfect health for me and my family, financial security for my friends and family, success for my future sons/daughters. But the one answer I narrowed it down to was this:
That on my gravestone, it will be written that Justin Michael Parker was "a good leader, a good coach, a good son, a good father, a good husband, and a good Christian man."
My legacy is important to me. How I am remembered is something that I think about quite a bit. And I know some people think I come off as somewhat opinionated and asshole-ish. But that is fine with me. I am actually proud to have a very strong personality. But the most important thing to me is how I will be remembered. I want my family to be proud of me. I never want to disappoint my parents. And I want anyone I meet to say, "That guy is definitely a Christian." That is something I have been lacking. It is hard to proclaim yourself a Christian with a beer in your hand or while you are swearing every other word. And I do both of those things. Anyways...the point is, I would want a Legacy that people will remember. I want people to be proud that I was a part of their lives.
So now it is your turns. What is it that you want?
-JPizzle
"John Kerry is an idiot. Vote Bush."
-Me (Justin M. Parker)