10 things I hate about you

Kat Stratford:
"I hate the way you talk to me,
and the way you cut your hair...
I hate the way you drive my car.
I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots,
and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick;
it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right.
I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh,
even more so when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around,
and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all."

We watched this movie in English class and this poem was so sad. It was said with so much emotion and it was great. The movie is based on the " Taming of the shrew" . Taming of the shrew was a comedy written by Shakespeare. The comedy is about a noblemen who marries a bad tempered shrew named Katherina. He tames her and makes her obedient. The main subplot features the courting of Katherina's more conventional sister Bianca by numerous suitors.

I really enjoyed the movie. It was extremely clever how they incorporated Shakespeare's work into it and made it an entertaining movie for teenagers. The poem is also based on Shakespeare's work. It was a really cool teenage movie.

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The game.

From the beginning of time man has played "the game". Everyone is always playing "the game". Every moment of every day for you entire life people have played it. The game its not a game you can see, it is not a game you can play on a board or with another person. Because the moment you think about the game you lose. As soon as you think about the game you lose and you have to say out loud "I lost the game"Therefore everyone around you thinks about the game and the result is that everyone loses " The game" The only way you can win the game is to not think about the game but by thinking about not thinking about the game you are actually thinking about the game. Which means that you lose the game. Confused yet. The only way to win the game is to drop the entire subject.

This is the most fun game in the world and its called "The game" My friend Lisa introduced me and my friends to the game. She said that every time we lost we had to say it out loud. Making everyone else lose. So she would constantly send us texts saying " I lost the game" to which we would reply "Oh Lisa, now I lost the game"I told this story to my friend Eve. I told it all serious and both her and I were taking it very seriously. She was liked Oh my gosh! Until we couldn't keep it up any more and we just cracked up laughing. Point is you have to try and play the game and play it with your friends. Its a lot of fun.

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Growing up

You know when your little, and pretty much every friend you had was the same. Sometimes mean, sometimes nice and then when you see those friends years later you begin to realize how much people have changed. Specifically when these years, these teenage years are when you notice not only how much everyone else has changed but yourself too. These are the years when everyone begins to define their own personalities, they begin to change and develop into the person that they will become. People change, they grow with every day and learn from their experiences. You can look around at your friends and notice how much they have grown. Not just physically but their personalities are growing up. So why don't we notice how much we ourselves have grown up. The signs are always around me but I never look back at what I used to be like until someone tells me that I have changed. I just keep looking forward. Cassandra and I were talking about this and I finally looked back. I have changed. So have all my friends. School makes you smarter but experience makes you wiser and looking back I noticed how much we had all changed. Our lives and everything about us has been altered.

This for me is mind boggling, I'm not sure why because at this stage in my life I am so happy. I look back an think that last year or the year before I would have never been having this much fun with my friends, with school, I would have never been coaching a team and yet now I am. I think the reason I never looked back is that now my life is so great and looking back might take me back instead of forward. Or maybe I'm just rambling incoherently. Most likely the later option. The whole point of this blog entry was that looking around at those young adults who used to be kids only a year or two ago makes you notice how fast were all growing up. The years go faster as our lives become more exciting. Time no longer seems relevant. It is as though your just floating on through life, enjoying amazing things. All of a sudden we have so much more freedom. Life just seems so good but it feels like its going to fast that maybe we might miss something.

Like they say "Life is to short" but I cant wait to live every moment to the full.

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