Is this real!!!!

• I officially am a student of Sonoma State Seawolves!!!!! Holy Shnikies I just can't believe after 17 years on this Earth I am now a college student. Praise be to God.

The Best Advice

So I sat here on a Thursday and listened to a man talk about life. We sat there and discussed college, careers, and family. After a whole 24 pack of beer ( I wasn't drinking) the discussion got really deep. He told me nothing in life is worth doing if the passion is not there. He stressed to me the importance of loving what you do and being selfish when it comes to yourself. What he said was a reality check he said,"Never be a taker. Borrow the knowlege that you gain in life and give it back to the people whom you meet on the way. Stay loyal to your heart and it will guide you." Sometimes the most motivational people are the people you don't expect it from

Holy Macbeth

So I'm sitting here watching Around the Horn on ESPN when something peculiar happened. Analysts J.A Adande was talking about Indiana Pacer coach Frank Vogel's job security when he quoted Shakespeare. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." Just something that I thought would make Preston smile

Why Passion is important

So for the past weekend and few days Ive been working at a tire shop in Santa Maria. I hate it, not the tire shop but the work. After about an hour I realized that this was something that I didnt want to do after high school. There was one man that has been there for 30+ years so I asked him why. He told me that he loves cars and this is the closest he can get to them. It is slowly coming together, Passion + Drive = A long and HAPPY career. Passion + Laziness = Misery

Passions & Emotions

Found this great article while browing the web

• http://gautamgs.blogspot.com/2008/07/passion-emotion.html

Where am I?

On these crossroads of must and should I am on the road of should. If I really think about it I walk both of the roads and end up in the middle often. I can not find myself doing what I must do, wrestling is what I am passionate about but of course there is n way that I can actually wrestle. Of course I can do other things associated with the sport but it just isn't the same as being on the mat competing.
Must, is like the article stated, "Is a leap of faith" and I need some assurance that I will land safely. I'm the kind of guy that fears failure although I do know that success is found only through failure. Everything in life has some sort of risk but doing something you love as a career? That's a load of crap. I know that we go to school and study "business" or "applied calculus" because we know hat we have to make a living. Ask any teacher on campus I bet you 50% of them would rather be doing something else.
The way that life and work are supposed to blend was really intriguing. I would love to see how my life would be if I didn't have to juggle everything, instead blend them. Wrestling season, for an example, is when my life seems to be a piece of art. I manage to get everything done: homework, practice, chores, everything. If that somehow ended up as a career it would be in my opinion the greatest job on planet Earth. Like it's been said," If you love what you do, you never work a day of your life."

Interview with Mr. Blanco

• So my masterpiece is based on emotional connections to individual passions. Passions give people a sense of purpose or meaning in their life and when taken away can cause a huge void. It can sometimes be an investment of your free time with out any incentives other than your own pleasure. Depending on the severity of the void in your life you might have to reevaluate yourself. People look to find other outlets to get their fix for their passions by channeling their time into something else. For me it would have to be coaching wrestling since I can not compete at a high level anymore. But can being emotionally attached to your passion be selfish? It can be, Mr. Blanco told me that people don't really appreciate what they have until its gone and it is 100% true. He also said that men use the prefrontal lobe of their brain when it comes to their passion, it means that they live more in the now than women do. The way a person responds to a loss whether it's a person or a passion in the same way: shock, anger, questioning, sadness, and then finally closure. The most important thing to do though is to be able to adapt.

Lit Analysis The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini

     The novel "The Kite Runner" is about a boy who grows up and find out that if you bury your problems then one day they will resurface with bigger consequences. Amir starts off as a boy living in Afghanistan with Baba (his father), the servants Ali and Hassan. Amir and Hassan are best friends but a series of unfortunate events lands the on different paths; Amir and Baba flee to America while Ali and Hassan flee out of town. Amir struggles to adapt but eventually ends up marrying the princess of the flea market, Soraya. Soon after Baba dies due to lung cancer. Amir gets a call one day and hears that Hassan was killed by the Taliban along with his wife and their son was sent to an orphanage. Amir is also told that he and Hassan were brothers and so he goes back to Afghanistan to find his nephew Sohrab. When he arrives he finds that Sohrab was taken by the Taliban headed by Amir and Hassan's childhood enemy. Amir and Assef fight and Sohrab intervenes and helps Amir escape. Amir and Sohrab recover but are told that Sohrab would have to stay behind and lead him to attempt suicide. Once back in the States Sohrab does not talk but one day at the park Amir buys a kite and does Hassan's signature move. As the kite flies away Sohrab smiles and Amir takes off after it.
     The theme of the novel is to face your demons when they first occur. Amir could have stopped Assef but didn't and he regretted it for the rest of his life. All three of their lives would have been extremely different if something would have done at that moment.
      The tone ranges so much during the novel. It is very positive and happy-go-lucky when Amir and Hassan win the kite tournament but drops down to grim and somber when Hassan is raped or when Baba dies.
       When I finished the novel I was in tears. I had been on an emotional train wreck and it finally was over. I sympathized with Amir but was understanding of Hassan. Both of them seemed like people that I had met and I will never forget these two dynamic characters. I felt as if I was in the same room when Assef  tried to kill Amir. This was the most realistic novel I had ever read and it is now my favorite.