Thursday.

Hello, my friends,

   As we all know today is Thursday. And I have worked at my Thursday routine for a couple years and the night ends in one thing: Volleyball. Although there are other things going on in my Thursday routine it all helps with the enjoyment of the weekly activity. This is no ordinary day/activity. It's a day where the [YA] gets together at the local grind spot to gain a good amount of experience. It's a make it or break it situation. You come face to face with reality: did you prepare or are you going to get prepared, quickly. It's like a feast. You have great friends and you want to be the best host. But you don't know where to take them. All the places you go to have loud communication, the stadiums are desolate, every accelerated moment leads to discipline, and the movies you watch weekly are becoming past reality. There is a place unknown to many. Only open at certain times of the week; the experience is deep.

   In this beautiful world full of opportunities there often is the feeling of: I'm so small and I can't do the things I want to do. But you can. It's not an easy process in gaining experience. Sometimes in exercising you spend weeks/months to get the gains you desire. So it is in life. Personally, I try everyday to help people around me. But I don't see the results I want/need. There is only one possibility: I need to keep trying. I'm a one among the fastest people in the world: the one percent. But I can't do the things I want/need because I don't have the experience.

  Running is a great example of this concept. We need to find ways to gain experience faster. We have people who research the best ways to do things. Someone who tried to do things on their own is going to gain skills necessary to be a soloist. But he will not be skilled in group experience. Thus the soloist is going to be a lot slower and have more weaknesses than the groupers. One man will never be able to bench press two thousand pounds. But five men can.

  A couple of years ago I would hear a word used in correlation with work which was: the grind stone. Sometimes we often think of life as we don't need to try/get better; we think everything comes easy. This is an interesting way of thinking because there is no care nor concern because Rodriguez/Celenie will clean it up. And Bruce/Spruce will clear the way. We think the clean up crew is going to take the bad out of the world so we can go to the supermarket. But this isn't the case; with this thinking we let things slide such as: smoking a weed is legal.

  When people are put into prison and the officers go to get the person out of the cell this is what they do: they take six guys who can each throw a one hundred and fifty pound person three feet. And they have on armor which bullets can't penetrate. Cherry wears a "t-shirt" in Washington State, Sally has on jean shorts, Carmon wears a tank top, and Bruce has dreadlocks. We have flags saying here is my weakness.

  Todays blog is about this dream of the crippled man being able to do what he wants to do, It's about the dream of a blind mind seeing what he desires to see, and the man without feelings feeling the things he desires, It's to say I see this great world and the things there in it.

Thank you,
Christopher Monson