So I have been doing a lot of thinking now that wrestling is over...
Most of it having to do with life and other things that probably would not interest any of you.
One thing, however, seemed to interest me and that is blogs. First of all, what is a blog?
I do not know the exact definition and I do not plan on looking it up either. I think a blog is the same thing as a diary. The difference between a blog and a diary is that a blog is open to the public, if the creator lets it be, and a diary is usually more private and personal and only for the author's eyes. This works for me though because I like writing about random things and having other people's minds think about it too. There are so many things in this world that I think about simply because they do not make sense to me or because they are just so abstract and well yeah you get the point. When I get the time to actually sit down and pour out my thoughts I will, for now I will leave you with a famous quote from Shakespeare, who may have not even been Shakespeare, "To be or not to be: that is the question..."

Just a little more..

So tomorrow is the EYL (East Yosemite League) tournament and it is going to be hosted here at Granite Hills High School. Yeah I am pumped and ready for it, however, I have to lose around three or four more pounds by tomorrow morning and I am not excited for that. I have also found out that I am unseated at the tournament, even though I have 20 wins and 11 losses under my belt. I find it to be okay because I have not wrestled at this weight, (154 lbs.), at all this year so I do not really have much to say that I should be seated. There are six guys in my bracket and I am at the bottom of that list. I really do not care what seat I am because I know I am going to do well and that I am better than most, if not all those guys. First things first, I need to drop this weight so that I am able to wrestle tomorrow. After I finish this blog I will be going to first period and I plan on running tho whole time so that I can cut some of the weight early. Today is not going to be a fun day. I am starving and I can not really eat much because of my weight. I brought two bananas, two oranges, and five boiled eggs to eat. When I get home I will probably have one more orange or something small like a yogurt. This is the most hated part of wrestling. I love food and I want to eat so bad, but I can't. So I'm going to go get warmed up and stretched so I can run for the hour long period. See ya... :|

I'm hungry...

At the start of this week I was frantically thinking about how I was going to lose eight pounds by the time we had our match against our cross-town rivals on Thursday. However, yesterday at practice my coach said that I did not have to drop the weight if I was still over by eight pounds, which I was. So now, I am relieved a bit because I do not have to eat little everyday since I am not dropping weight. Even though I wanted to drop a weight class for this match, from 160's to 152's, I am just going to have to wait for the EYL (East Yosemite League) Tournament next weekend to drop. This gives me another week to drop the weight. In all honesty, it is not hard to drop the weight, I lose about 4 or 5 pounds everyday at practice. It is mostly water weight though, and I regain it back easily. It just takes discipline to keep your weight down, and that is something that I struggle with because when I eat, I tend to eat until I am satisfied. Eating to only be half full is very hard, well for me at least. I will drop the weight though, I need to. I'll try and keep whoever is reading this posted on how things go. See ya!

Where has all the time gone?

Okay so I finally had the chance to sit down and write a blog. It is 2:38 in the morning at school starts at 8:10 so it should be a good day. Anyways.....

So I am now past the halfway point of my senior year and I finally understand the seniors of the years past that said the time would fly by. And it has. I am pondering on the fact that not only is my final year in high school almost over but so is my final season of high school wrestling. It feels like just yesterday I was looking for my headgear and wrestling shoes in my closet to have them ready for practice. However, I am not sad that my final wrestling season is almost over because I know I have been making the best of it. I am currently 19-5-0 with 10 out of my 19 victories won by pinning my opponent. Of course, I would like to have the undefeated streak but I unfortunately was not able to keep it since I lost my first match of the season! Since the season began I know I have been putting in work, blood, and sweat to make the best of my final season. My coach has really made an impact on me this year, pushing me to my limit and helping me get through those days of doubt. Our team is not too bad this year, I knew it was not going to be since last year, but I wish we still had those few guys that let up on the team earlier this season. It is not right to judge them for quitting, but if they would not have quit we probably would have more team wins and not just individual wins. We did, however, make a commitment at the beginning of the season to our team stating that we would stick it out to the end...
I'm not frowning though, I am happy with those who have stayed committed and have been working hard so that we can better ourselves in our wrestling career. Yeah, I still hear it from people that we are crazy for losing weight and starving ourselves and this and that...but you know, it really is not that crazy when you think about it...I mean think about it, you can google crazy and find things that really are out of this world type of crazy. I mean some of us wrestlers are a bit crazy, but it should not be anything new. Now that I am past the halfway point of the season I'd like to see how much more I can accomplish along side my comrades and I hope to pull through and achieve the goals that I have made for myself. There is just one thing I would like to let the people who are taking their time to read my blogs know, and that is to cherish every moment you have in life and try to not let any opportunities slip past you. This life was made for us to live it and succeed. So that is what we all will do. If the days get tough just know it is not the end, a new day will come and with it new beginnings. For now, this blog should do. My eyes are getting heavy and I hear my pillows calling. I'll keep my blog up-to-date now...because I know I always have something I need to blog about after almost every practice.
Peace.

Wrestling

This year wrestling season went by in a flash. I can remember being there the first day of practice with so many strange faces. I have met many amazing people throughout my years of wrestling and most of them happen to be from my own team. My wrestling season for my junior year did not have the outcome I was hoping. I know this falls under my wing; I know I should have pushed myself a little harder everyday of practice. The one thing wrestling has taught me is how to discipline myself and my body in ways I really thought I would not be able to. Like my coach says, "Wrestling is a sport of conditioning and positioning," the better conditioning one has, the better positioning they will be in on the mat. I have one season of wrestling left in my high school career, and I plan to leave everything on the mat. I know I have to work out in the off season to better myself for my last season in wrestling. I plan to do so with those who want to achieve more of themselves. Wrestling has helped me through a lot of obstacles in my life. Like Dan Gable said, " Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy." Only a true wrestler understands that.

When it falls down...

So I am sitting here in Enlgish class doing nothing -_-
It's bittersweet thinking the fact that I am wasting my time doing nothing when I could be doing something productive that will eventually help me out sometime in my life. Oh well though. Time will never stop so literally it's unstoppable. We can't fight time either because that's just not possible. There are too many questions that will be left unanswered when I die, which makes me feel all weird because even though there is an infinite amount of time you still cannot answer every question. For instance, when will time stop? haha. Something I believe that wastes the time of every human being is sleeping. My friend Jesus also has some input on this belief. When one is asleep they do nothing except rest. Do humans really need this rest, or does our mind just make us feel that we do? Since freshman year, my honors English teacher had given my class a lecture of all the things we could do by staying up late doing things that are productive. Since then, I have found myself to be staying up to around one or two in the morning working on homework or getting ahead in my classes or just doing anything I find interesting other than sleeping. My mom and dad think it is a bad habit of me but my brother seems to have the same routine and he says it has really saved him in college. So I will see how my sleeping patterns will help me out with working out as much time as I have in my life and only time will tell what will happen. Just another thought to throw out there and think about...

New Post!

This post is to Dylan:

Hi ! :p
I'll put a new one up sometime this week. When I have time to think!