So I was just reading raptors blog and it reminded me of some stuff and I thought why not steal his idea.
5 years ago today I was a freshman in high school. This was prolly one of the lower prolly one of the lower points in my life socially, but I really think it helped shape me into who I am today. This was the time period when all of my friends were trying out drinking and smoking weed, and I decided that I didn't want any part of that, so naturally we all grew apart. I never hung out with them anymore, because all they were doing was stuff that I didn't do.

This was the year that I decided baseball wasn't for me. This is one thing that I have always been really good at in my life, when I stop enjoying what I am doing I am able to quit and move on very easily. I stopped enjoying baseball the previous year and was basically pretty miseralbe all year long, while my dad was putting his life into our baseball team. He built a battting cage in our backyard, and we traveled to a new town every weekend of the entire summer. I got burnt out and simply quit enjoying the game.

I played basketball that year and really had a terrible year with that as well. There were four different teams that you could make and I happened to make that lowest one, just because I was a freshman and the coach was an idiot. The team I played on was pathetic and the coach ran practice like boot camp. Basically I had more triple doubles that season than our team had wins. Believe me I was no ball hog at all, the coaches told me to shoot more, so if you know anything about basketball you understand how ridiculous that team was.

So basically when I showed up to the first day of baseball tryouts and realized I was going to be playing for a coach who was very similar, if not worse, I just decided that it wasn't worth it to go through that again and I didn't go back. My dad was heart broken, but he understood, I had found my new passion...golf. I devoted my heart to golf the year before and spent all of my free time on the course. I was up there literally from 9-7 playing as long as I could. I just absolutely loved the game and devoted my heart and soul to it.

Freshman year I traveled six hours away to play in my first real tournament. I was a little 15 year old playing against seniors, and one of the kids who finished 2nd at state the previous year. I was pissed that they didn't have a 15 and under bracket to play in, because most tournaments did, but o well. I went out on the front side and careered it out of my mind, running hot in golf, I think I shot 4 under on the front and then a 39 on the back for my first ever round under par. I shot the lowest score by one stroke, but unfortunately it was a two day tournament.

I was there with my mom and my infant little brother and I swear I didn't get 2 hours of sleep that night. I kept tossing and turning like you wouldn't believe. The next morning I force fed myself some McY D's thinking that was the nourishment I needed for victory. I was so nervous I didn't even know what to do. I went out and somehow shot a 77 to tie the player in 2nd place and win the tourny by a stroke.

I was hooked and went on to have a really good high school golf season making the varsity team for every tournament but one, I got snubbed out of the regional team cause the coaches son was on the team and had "more experience in tournaments". Fucking ass hole, me and my dad were so pissed that he was ready to up move to a new town and play for a different school.

i remember that year and it litterally seemed like everything that could go wrong did. It was pretty ridiculous, but I never really moped around I kept my head up and was greatful for what I had. I have always been good at this, and I hope I will continue this for the rest of my life.

I am hoping that this year, 5 years later will kind of be my redeemer year. Hopefully everything that can go right will. My life is litterally incredible and to be honest I could not imagine it being much better. I have so much to be greatful for and things seem to be going my way. This is a much better feeling than I had about life 5 years ago, and I can't even imagine where I will be 5 years from now.

To be completely honest I think these next 5 years are most likely going to be the absolute prime of my life. I am young and I literally have the world at my fingertips. I am in college which is a great place to meet people, and I have what you call finacial freedom, that is only going to get better. I can't imagine that I will be continueing with poker after those 5 years and while the time in my life after that might be a lot more fullfilling, I can imagine that my next 5 are going to be a lot more fun.

I have got the world at my fingertips, and I gotta soft touch
I swear I wont sink tha ship, or love it too much