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Okay, this might be a very long livejournal entry, but it's broken into segments for your ease-of-reading...I mean...if you want to read it. First of all, I will talk about my day...
- My Day
My day started off with two baseball games. I didn't play the first, but I started in the second. Oh man, I played horribly. I struck out twice, once with the bases loaded with two out, and another leading off. And then I missed a fly ball that I swear was going to center field.......I was playing right, and it dropped right in front of me. I was very disappointed in myself, and when my teammates say "Don't worry about it." it makes me feel worse because they are cool about it, when I am not.
Then I when to Faith Baptist for their youth group which has become routine, but I wasn't acting like myself.
- My Livejournal Friends
My livejournal friends are great. They always make me feel important when they leave 10+ comments with witty statements, advice, cool websites, and the like. I read your livejournals too, but I never have anything important to say, to let you know. So, thanks for being there and your input and for putting up with the random rants.
- Airborne
I did tell Amanda that I would dedicate an entry to Airborne, and this will be it. For those who don't know, Airborne is my favorite movie of all-time along with Casablanca. It is the story of Mitchell, a California kid who is sent to Cincinnati to live with his aunt, uncle, and cousin Wiley. Mitchell is outcasted for his love of peace, being a surfer, and just for being out of town. He courts Nikki, sister of Jack, a member of the hockey team....who absolutely hates him. Jack and the hockey team bully Mitchell, until his breaking point...when he said that nothing or no one is worth fighting for, and loses Nikki for that statement. When the hockey team finds out that Mitchell is a kick-butt rollerblader, they respect him, and begs him to race the Preps, their archenemies, down Devil's Backbone, a nickname for a hilly area of Cincinnati. When Mitchell helps the team win, he then wins over Nikki...where the story ends.
This movie absolutely positively changed my life. Seriously. I first saw it the summer of '01, the summer I would enter the seventh grade. I was okay with myself, my personality. I was well-liked, but very very shy (42nd Street) and people kind of thought I was immature. I didn't have a passion, I didn't care for nature, I wasn't very peaceful. I saw this movie, I saw this character Mitchell who loved peace, ocean waves, didn't lose his cool, was quite charming with the ladies, and took risks (the final scene where he jumps off a car and lands 30 feet below on a truck). He was much more than that, and it was influential to me. This might sounds extremely insane, extremely.....but I picked up on everything in that movie. I know....really insane. I grew to love surfing (before it went extremely mainstream everyone wants to surf these days>) I brought my rollerblades out of the closet and became an excellent techanical rollerblader, I became very very peaceful, cool, calm, and collected. I wasn't so shy anymore. I called Airborne my roots. I always say how I'll go back to my roots, so this is what that means. My life changed so much, and for the best. These days, I've forgotten my roots, I've lost my cool, my rollerblades are sitting in my closet instead of near my backpack, I've become different. I hope writing this article about Airborne will revive my love for it. Okay, I'll shut up now.... thanks for listening.