If you are an avid follower you know that I have ventured to a game of the surprising, exciting, and Nationally Ranked (#6) your San Diego State Aztecs Basketball team (and if you don't follow know you know). For the last 4 years I have been one of the few faithful to genuinely support the team thru thick and more thin. It does make it a lot easier that I receive free tickets and free meal & drinks rubbing elbows with boosters and famous SDSU alums. Be that as it may, I find myself leaving every game hoping that my voice will make it through the night. Last nights game as all home games have been this year was sold out to capacity, and all I wondered where were all the Aztec faithful were when the team was existing in mediocrity. Just sayin' the bandwagon is full.
** Last night was a treat, as the Aztecs have emerged as a national power, so brings the people that want to be seen at the game. Ok it's not the Lakers front row, with Jack Nicholson, nor the Knicks with Spike Lee, but filled with some local heros and celebrities. Antonio Gates, full bling in his ears, Bob Scanlon (channel 4 TV personality, former MLB pitcher), but the most prolific in my opinion, SDSUs own STEVEN STRASBURG!!! Now I have met the guy before, but a young boy, son of one of my dad's employee's, who plays travel ball BTW got to have a conversation with the flamethrower. The coup de grace (pronounced koo de graa) was the question that young boy asked him.. he said "What MLB batter were you afraid to pitch to?" The answer, "I wasn't afraid of any of them", and I am not the only one that is excited about his potential.
BUT... Let's get to the real reason of the post! I want to try to do a NEW adventure everyday, since I have done a SDSU game before what was I to do... Well, what a better way then going back in time...TO COLLEGE! My Dad and I left early, so I could walk the campus, knowing that IT WAS THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS. The campus was bustling with eager youngsters (relatively) talking about majors, interesting lectures, and the dreams of what they hope to achieve. Man do I miss those days, where all of my potential was ahead of me, the expectation that I would easily achieve all my goals. These kids are oblivious to the real world, the constant grind, the concessions, the compromises that you make, until you reach a point where you yearn for that innocence again.
Like a grain of sand in the Sahara I immersed myself in the micro-society of a college campus. I am Jack's enthralled sense of Jealously!! (Bonus points for naming the movie!) Life was so easy, a constant cruise control, I know that my parents don't want to hear it, but let's be honest people Justin = Easy st.
Now that the daily routine of adult responsibility constantly pounds me over the head, I can't help but think that I am destined to return to the land of academia. I want it, I wish for it, and yet I put it off... Why? I'm too busy, I have responsibilities, I have a job? A Life? PSHAW... I have fear (period). But the bizarre thing is fear of what???
- Cheers
*Movie: Fight Club
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