By Samira Peete
Lethan
So back when I was in high school I used to play soccer I used to actually play soccer everyday, sometimes I
wouldn't be able to, and on those days I would literally feel so dull because I wasn't being fulfilled. I took up track and field and that added more meaning to the days I wasn't playing soccer. Then I started gym shortly after and that was another thing so then when I came to the US for undergrad I came on a scholarship for track and field and that meant I literally had to work out five or six days a week. On my off day's I would still be doing some form of a workout. A recovery workout being walking light jogging, and whatnot so essentially I had no days off.
On the days that I really had off I still felt the same way when I was playing soccer many years ago I felt dull like something's still missing in my day I wasn't as happy as I tended to be when I did still play or participate in physical activity I try to stay active as much as I could I suffered an injury 4 years ago I suffered cervical sprain basically whiplash. Which has the doctor say there's really truly no way to fix that so it will reoccur and it is a chronic injury and so that kept me from working out for 2 to 3 months and during that time I wanted to work out, I wanted to be active and the feeling that i was getting before that it was actually exhilarating and then to go from working out every day to not working out a all it was just basically painful. I would go to the track meet to support my team and I couldn’t go by athletic room because my teammates that we trained together for so long and i was like okay i went to support them and all i wanted to was be in that ring and i couldn’t go in the ring so i had to go to the running events or the jumping events just to not want to be in that ring as much because just watching my teammates throw and I’m not the next in line and that. It was just heartbreaking honestly. So since I did recover, I made a pact with myself that I’m gonna start working out every day that I can. So unless I hurt, feeling the pain from my neck or some other type of injury, I do try to work out. I remember just a year and a half ago when I was training for a half marathon, I was following through the Nike Running App and there was one workout that I was following from the marathon world record holder, I can’t quite remember his name, but he’s Kenyan (Eliud Kipchoge).
He basically said he runs because he can because there’s so many out there in the world that actually want to run, they want to workout and they can’t because they have some physical condition or their bodies just really won’t let them workout or so many other reasons that they’re unable to workout, so I listen to his statement and it made sense and it encouraged me to actually want to go out there each day and not only workout for myself because it actually makes me feel better, makes me fitter, makes me happier and just go throughout my day better. It also is to actually workout and workout for those that can’t actually do it for themselves each day, especially when I run, I think of someone who wants to run but they can’t. Sometimes I do for when I lift, but it’s not as common, but definitely every time I run, I do think about someone who wants to run or workout and they just can’t so that’s basically why I workout every day.
Madison
What makes me laugh tends to be a lot of inside jokes pertaining to my childhood and stuff like that. Especially my friends sometimes because we have such a unique sense of humor and were so close. Sometimes even just looking at one another we can't be serious, no matter the situation even in the worst time we find it hilarious just making eye contact with each other.
I like cute videos of cats and dogs and cute animals and also sometimes those silly wipeout types of videos where it's like the gameshow and they're like bouncing on the balls and they just go the wrong way and then they fly off. Yeah just a lot of stuff pertaining to my friends just doing spontaneously goofy kind of things like riding in a shopping cart or hula hooping in target. Playing bumper cars with the handicap things in Walmart, which is not a good idea because you get kicked out but it's fun and it makes me laugh, so yeah thats what makes me laugh.
Melissa
I'm a huge music listener, especially orchestra music. I like high intensity music especially when that music goes through my ears it creates splashes of imagination in my mind and sometimes if i'm near paper I'll go ham on the canvas or paper but if im not it keeps the juices flowing for my creativity.
Lizette
I think what's scary is uncertainty. There's so many possibilities and outcomes, you'll never really know if you made the right decisions and you won't find out till much later and it might be too late sometimes. Uncertainty can hold many people back including myself from doing things that might end up being great for them but you won’t know that because the thought of not knowing what comes after can be really scary.
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