Saturday, 5/22/10
Dear World,
Today I hung on rim, with both hands, still standing at 5'7 1/2''. It has been nearly two weeks since I have touched a basketball and everytime I get back on the court, I simply amaze myself of how fast I am improving. I know it is only a matter of time before I am well above the rim dunking. My squat and deadlift is not even twice my body weight yet and I haven't even incorporated power or plyometric movements into my workout program. However, it appears as though the sky still remains as the limit for me whether it was reiterated like it was today playing ball or - as in the past - everything I have dedicated myself to: automotive racing, karting, hip hop dancing, poetry, writing, and strength training.
Unfortunately however, the one challenge I disappointingly and painfully have to admit that I have not quite been able to excel at is explaining to people the need to give back to the community; volunteerism. The mass majority of people I talk to simply do not understand the dire need of helping others; that the world desperately need each and everyone one of them in even the smallest of ways. Those values - at the most fundamental level - of being human seem to continue to be washed away by the norms we so comfortably and mundanely live by and motions which we follow within this society without question, without cynical criticism. We wake, work, wear out, and finally quietly wither away. It's heartbreaking.
It makes me think whether we were born to live or to just survive in the first place?
-A12
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