You Want What You Can't Have

     As the saying goes "You're only young once." This phrase can be defined in many ways, but the ones that most vibrantly come to mind are "do all you want while you can" and "live life to the fullest." It is hard to imagine since we are so young that when we get older we won't be able to do some of the many things that we love now. But that's the way it is. Everyone has their time.

     Isn't it something how people are never satisfied no matter what? The get the exact thing they want but next week they want something new. But this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Our never-satisfied attitude is what prompted/prompts us to improve civilization with things such as technology. However, this attitude is also what drives greed, lust, and killing. When you're young, you can't wait to be older. But when you get older, you would do anything to have your youth back. I wonder if one day, this attitude will only drive us to the optimistic actions.

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Biggest Event of the Year

     Did you guess what I'm talking about from the title? That's right. The Super bowl! There was a lot of money lost and gained yesterday as soon as Aaron Hernandez missed his catch. Whether the Patriots win or lost was all up to if he made the catch or not. Eli Manning got a well-deserved MVP award and won his second Super bowl in four years.

     Frankly, I'm glad the overrated New England Patriots lost. Don't get me wrong, I recognize them as a good team, one of the best in the league, but still, I think the Giants were the better team there. Besides, to me the New Orleans Saints is still the #1 football team in the NFL! I was going for the Giants not just because Eli deserved to beat Brady, not because Brady is overrated, but because my logic was this: 49ers beat Saints (BY LUCK), then the giants beat the 49ers who beat the Saints (best team) and went on to beat the undefeated Packers was definitely gonna beat Tom Brady and the Patriots. I was right, and Tom got taken down a peg or two.

Outside Reading Response: Wake

     Well, I finished with the book Wake by Lisa McMann and it was definitely one of the best books I've ever read. Just to feel in any interested classmates on some details about the book, the ending was kind of a cliff-hanger. Janie, the main character, works at a nursing home (that place old people go when they get old and sick). As you may have read in one of my previous posts, she gets sucked into people's dreams while she is awake, so she might not have the best job for her "problem".

     However, after on of her patients died (her favorite), she found out that they had a connection beyond most other people. The woman that dies was a "catcher". As you may have put clues together, Janie is also a catcher. A catcher is a person who is pulled into someone's dream to help them in some way. However, for them to be helped in the dream, the must ask the catcher for help themselves. Janie is figuring out how to control her power better and now tries to get sucked into people's dreams just to practice. I guess all that's next is for me to read the next book in the trilogy: Fade.

 Outside Reading:

Wake by Lisa Mcmann -150 minutes Tuesday