How daily exercise helped keep me sane in American society.
Posted: August 27th, 2014, 10:10 am
We all get tired of these unhelpful attitude enthusiasts with their empty words of advice blaming the individual for having a bad outlook on life. That is bull. When I was on the plane back from Costa Rica I really was imagining that I would get a good job and have a lot of friends when I got back to Dallas. I really thought being an American again was going to be great but as it turned out when I came back people reminded me over and over again why I had to leave it for Costa Rica. People in Costa Rica were so friendly and helpful to me, always ridiculously happy and always super-polite. People there loved me for being different but when I came back to Dallas people disliked me for being different. Everywhere I turned someone was always judging me with their eyes or too absorbed into their phones to look at anyone else around them. Suddenly I was reminded like a ton of bricks why I was taking anti-depressants before going abroad and why I stopped taking them when I arrived in Costa Rica.
And getting a job was hard too because managers just said "I don't hire people without experience" even though we can't get experience if we are not hired. America is rotting from the inside because we disqualify people from even finding a starting point and then insult them by calling them "entitled". After months of frustrating job searches, I burned out and went into a depression. I am tired of how young people are treated like garbage in America. It makes me sick. Thankfully it was basketball season and I became obsessed with NBA basketball just as I was when I was a kid. One day, Ray Allen of the Boston Celtics broke Reggie Miller's three-point record of 2,560 career three-pointers and all of TD Garden cheered his name as I did. I was so inspired that I decided to go to LA Fitness and shoot three-pointers every day until I got to 2,561 then I was still frustrated in life so I kept going to 3,000 then 5,000 and I kept it up throughout the year until at the end I had 25,000 threes. That was three years ago and now I am at 64,777 threes. I don't do this to claim a world record; I do this for myself. If I didn't focus so much on shooting baskets I would have self-destructed years ago. I am still pissed off every day but I can always take comfort in that I am physically fit and that I never feel sluggish. People are too self-centered these days to give anyone else a helping hand so we have to help ourselves.
But the other thing I have noticed is that sports brings Americans together more than anything else. When the Mavericks won the championship in 2011 that was the most unified I have ever seen the city of Dallas. For a while everybody was happy. Then of course the Mavs lost the next year and everything went back to being anti-social and miserable again. So Dallas is still a pretty miserable place but I still go to LA Fitness every day because it is the only damn thing left that keeps me sane.
And getting a job was hard too because managers just said "I don't hire people without experience" even though we can't get experience if we are not hired. America is rotting from the inside because we disqualify people from even finding a starting point and then insult them by calling them "entitled". After months of frustrating job searches, I burned out and went into a depression. I am tired of how young people are treated like garbage in America. It makes me sick. Thankfully it was basketball season and I became obsessed with NBA basketball just as I was when I was a kid. One day, Ray Allen of the Boston Celtics broke Reggie Miller's three-point record of 2,560 career three-pointers and all of TD Garden cheered his name as I did. I was so inspired that I decided to go to LA Fitness and shoot three-pointers every day until I got to 2,561 then I was still frustrated in life so I kept going to 3,000 then 5,000 and I kept it up throughout the year until at the end I had 25,000 threes. That was three years ago and now I am at 64,777 threes. I don't do this to claim a world record; I do this for myself. If I didn't focus so much on shooting baskets I would have self-destructed years ago. I am still pissed off every day but I can always take comfort in that I am physically fit and that I never feel sluggish. People are too self-centered these days to give anyone else a helping hand so we have to help ourselves.
But the other thing I have noticed is that sports brings Americans together more than anything else. When the Mavericks won the championship in 2011 that was the most unified I have ever seen the city of Dallas. For a while everybody was happy. Then of course the Mavs lost the next year and everything went back to being anti-social and miserable again. So Dallas is still a pretty miserable place but I still go to LA Fitness every day because it is the only damn thing left that keeps me sane.