It seems as if, no matter how much I try to hold on to something, I can’t. I don’t even have time to wrap my head around anything.
Everything is moving faster than me and I can’t seem to hold onto the present. Right when I start to settle in, everything changes.
I got used to letting everything slip through my fingertips, until I met you. When I met you, I finally felt as if I could hold onto something.
But, I was wrong.
I should have known that I couldn’t hold onto anything, let alone you, but I was young and foolish.
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I got used to your arms. I thought they would hold me in the present my whole life.
Then, one day they were ripped away faster than I could blink. The one place that I truly felt safe was taken away. It hurt and was scary. I thought it could never get worse, until I realized you meant more to me than I could have ever meant to you. I seemed to be something that you wanted to forget and you wanted to erase me.
You ripped me apart and made me feel lower than I could have ever imaged, but I had my best friend.
At least, that’s what I thought, until she found a new boy who was better than me.
Then, I lost another close friend. It felt as if he dropped off the face of the earth. He never texted me and I never even saw or heard anything about him, until he was on my friend’s story. This friend thought we had drifted apart and no longer wanted to be my friend as well.
So, I laid in my bed all day with nothing to do and no one to do nothing with.
All my friends did things with their summers, they posted it, too. I watched them have fun and get tan as I laid in bed and let the present fully slip from my grasp.
Now, I have to grow up, vote, apply to college, and survive my senior year. I have to do this while faking to everyone I have a grip on the present and present myself as put-together.
I’ve slipped like this before and somehow I was able to make it out, but sometimes it really seems impossible without you.
Why wasn’t I enough for you?
Why did you let me slip?
Why wouldn’t you let me make things okay?
Why should I try to make things okay when you’re the one who fucked it up?
It’s 2015 and all the good values in Americans are dead. This generation is disrespectful, uninformed, more interested in what’s trending, and drinking overpriced coffee, than finding success in life. There was a time where Americans took pride in their work, when they respected the President, and families talked about their day at meals.
What happened to the hard-working American? The ones that took pride in their work and came home each day satisfied and tired? Nowadays everyone complains about their work; they think being a barista is a career, and that their life’s so hard.
60% of United States citizens don’t graduate college. If anyone from that 60% says life is hard, they are full of crap. They do less than the 40%, and they complain just as much. How hard can their job be?
If anyone comes home from work not tired, they did it wrong. This is America, what was once the best nation in the world. What happened to this generation? How did one generation completely ruin all American values? I am ashamed to be a part of the worst generation in American history. What happened to the good old American ideal that we could always do better?
The lazy baristas and interns aren’t just bad employees; they are just plain disrespectful. Everywhere I go, I will see at least one kid being extremely disrespectful. There’s a difference between teenage trouble making and pure disrespect.
The disrespect is rudeness, like knocking stuff down and not picking it up because it’s not their job. It’s okay to not agree, but to disrespect publicly is wrong. Everyone from my generation, including me, does this. I’m not proud when I do it, but it’s just something everyone does now.
This is the generation of social media where we can say anything without repercussions. Free speech is great, but what no one understands anymore is just because it can be said, it doesn’t mean it should be. I would classify myself as a Republican, but I don’t trash talk Obama.
In fact, I think Obama has done a damn good job. Obama is a great example to show what’s wrong with the nation. When I say that, I don’t mean the government; I mean the people in it. What is wrong with people who think it’s okay to question whether Obama was born in the states?
What happened that made it okay for the media to falsely state Obama’s plans? The biggest incident was post Sandy Hook, when the news was telling everyone Obama is taking their guns away. But in reality, he has done more for gun nuts than against.
I’m not saying it’s the parents of this generation to blame. It’s the biased news that is viewed by everyone, manipulating the public. It is the uninformed social media users spreading non-factual crap that makes the government look like a joke. What makes this country so bad? It’s the people who say the country is bad, but don’t realize that they are the ones who need to change it. They are the ones who make America bad.
I hope that someday people once again look up to the President with the highest level of respect, even those that don’t agree. The people make the country, not the government. It’s the whole damn reason the government was designed the way it was.
There are no other words I feel comfortable putting in this title. I’m not going to show you guys the video or anything like that. This is mainly about how hard an athlete has to work to reach his goals. Kevin Ware is no different than anyone in the sense that he worked hard at what he loved. He loved basketball and because of what happened yesterday, he can probably never play again.
By now, just about everyone knows about the Kevin Ware incident. He jumped up to block a shot and while landing, his leg crumpled in a number of spots. According to reports, his tibia went through his skin and was exposed. This goes down as possibly one of the most gruesome injuries in the history of sports. It’s right up there with Joe Theismann.
I don’t want to talk about it too much. But what I do want to point out is something I saw on Facebook the other day. There was a picture by Adidas posted on their wall, asking the public “Is there anyone on YOUR team that brings out the best in you?”. I immediately started thinking about players I had competed with at any given time. I thought of a few, but after this moment in the game yesterday, I undoubtedly believe that Ware is one of the most inspirational players I’ve ever seen.
He spoke to his coach Rick Pitino and some of his teammates as he was being tied to the stretcher. “Just win the game” he said to his teammates.
A man who is laying on the ground with part of his bone out of his skin still tries to rally his teammates. And it worked.
Louisville won by 22 points and buried Duke. It was inspirational, and I wish Kevin Ware the very best.
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