You Miss 100% of the Shots You Don't Take

A friend came to me the other day looking for advice on a problem concerning his love life. Now, I won't give any details, since he put his trust in me, and I'm not exactly sure why I am posting this, but here it goes.

Why he came to me, I wasn't sure. I may not the most experienced man in the field he was asking about, but I did my best to help him. After hearing him out, I gave advice that could also serve me well and so many others out there right now.

The advice was this:

Don’t keep your mouth shut. If you have something to say; then just go right out an say it. Don't keep feelings bottled up. The worst thing a person can possibly do is not say what is on their mind. There are things that should be said and things that shouldn’t be said and, with matters such as this, I think those types of things should be said. Contrary to what most people seem to think, It is really never really too late to reveal your true feelings.

The outcome shouldn’t matter. The fact that you put yourself out there is all that does. You can’t live your life wondering what if… I once saw a poster that said “You miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take”. How true that is. You can’t fail at something if you don’t try at it to begin with it. That’s only logical. If you don’t try, then you live with that guilt for the rest of your life and it eats at you daily.

Now, I won’t go into detail about how this applies to me, but those close to me know exactly what I am talking about. I can testify that the things you don’t do are the ones that bug you more than what you did and regret. At least you tried, you may regret it, but at least you had the courage to do something. Some of us just sit in the shadows cowering from what we should be doing since we fear the possible outcome although there is no way to know what can happen until you actually try it.

I hope he did take my advice. Good luck!

Man, Its Been Awhile

Man, It has been awhile since I posted on here. In fact, I don't think I've gotten a single post written since I've returned to school this year.

Its not from lack of things to say, trust me.

This school year has started out and looks to be the busiest one of my entire schooling career. With class, 3 jobs, and a pair of clubs; both of which I hold editor positions, I just haven't had that much time to sit out and plan a post.

I am trying to figure out something I could post in my blog, that would be like a weekly segment. Something, such as a countdown or something that would go up around the same time daily. At this moment, I cannot pinpoint any direct ideas so if any of my devout readers have any ideas, please feel free to let me know.

I think as I have grown more accustomed to the "College Life" over the years, the stress seems to become almost natural to me. Freshman have told me that their life is so stressed and I used to worry about the stress and work a lot in my younger years, but now its second nature. The stress is there, but I guess I am so used to it that I don't let it bug me as much.

Don't get me wrong, I would prefer to be stress free, but since I'm used to it, it doesn't bother me that much anymore. I guess that's a good thing?

Despite my busy schedule, I will attempt to post on here more. Once, I get back into the blogging grove, I will throw more and more posts out there.

Until my next post; Happy Readings and thanks for your patience with me...