If I Was Invisible

If I was invisible I would probably go all the places I wanted to for free. I would probably spy on people and see what they say about me honestly, I know it’s wrong but how could you not? I really wouldn’t want to be invisible. I like to be noticed. I like to be able to engage with people.

Things I Believe In

I believe…

1.      I like pizza

2.      I like the beach

3.      I like summer

4.      Miracles happen

5.      I’m a good wrestler

6.      I’m strong

7.      I eat healthy

8.      God is real

9.      I live a good life

10.  I’m a good cook

11.  I have the best family

12.  I like hot wings

13.  I’m a good driver

14.  I like to go the gym

15.  I’m a good swimmer

16.  I’m a good fisherman

17.  I love my girlfriend

18.  I will graduate college

19.  I will be successful

20.  I will have a family one day

 

 

 

I believe that I am a good wrestler. In high school I put in the work, I went to the camps I lifted weights almost every day, I went to all the off season workouts I could. I believe in my mind I could have been a Division 1 wrestler, but I never did it. I had the talent, I had the skill, but a mental block in my head kept me from being as good as I could. My senior year was my best year. I finished the season with a 41-8 record. Throughout the season I was ranked 6^th in the state. At the state tournament I shut down and didn’t place. They place top 6 I lost in the match to get a medal and was top 8. I missed my goal by one match, 6 minutes, I shut down. But even though I fell short of my goals I always believed I was a good wrestler, because in the practice room I was a beast! I beat the best kids, I had no pressure on me to win cause I knew it was practice. I would try new moves I would wrestle hard and leave it all on the mat. But when It came show time I didn’t wrestle like that. I would go back to what I did best, I never would open up and leave it all out there. It obviously worked most of the time because I was 41-8, but if I would of opened up and not been scared to lost I would have been 49-0 state champion and probably wrestling at a D1 school, like Mizzou. But, being shy and not wresting as hard as I could got in the way and stopped me short of my goal. I think about it every day, I never leaves my mind. I miss wrestling so much because I know I have the skill and the strength and the knowledge of the sport to be great at it, but I don’t know my place in it anymore. It’s probably my biggest personal battle right now. I hope soon I figure out if I go back and do it, I hope so. I believe I’m a good wrestler because I put in the time, it’s my passion, I believed I could have been great. I worked harder at it than anyone on my team in high school and I wanted it so bad that I would force kids to come to off season to wrestle with me.

I Believe in Wrestling Essay

I Believe in Wrestling

 

I believe in wrestling. I believe in what it teaches on and off the mat. One of my coaches always said “Life is more like wrestling than dancing.” I started wrestling in 7^th grade, I started kind of late compared to my opponents who started as young as 6. I had to learn to be tough and take my beating. My dad would help me anyway possible, we would go to camps, drive to Diamond Missouri once a week on a school night so I could wrestle with those kids that would beat me up. It wasn’t till high school I realized he did that because he loved me, it’s all part of the learning process of wrestling, and you have to take your beating before you can start giving beatings. Wrestling has taught me how to work towards a goal and to never give up. The thing I love about wrestling is that it is a personal battle, when you step on the mat it’s all you. You’re team mates can’t save you your coach can only yell out moves and no matter winning or losing, in pain or giving the pain it is all on you. That is what I love about wrestling. In life it’s all you, if you get in trouble, it’s your fault, if you don’t pay your bills on time, it’s your fault. Wrestling unlike any team sport you rely on what you do. Wrestling teaches you to take responsibility for your action, and to be respectful. Some of the nicest humble people I know are wrestlers. Just because someone steps on the mat and beats someone up doesn’t mean they are bad people. Up until I started wrestling in the 7^th grade I was always in trouble or in the principal’s office. I wanted to show off so I could have friends and be “cool.” Well once middle school hit and wrestling came into my life I all of a sudden had to straighten up my act. You get bad grades, can’t wrestle. You get in fights or disrespect your teacher, off the team. There was no room for misbehavior. I honestly believe the sport of wrestling has made me into the person I am today. Wrestling isn’t just a sport, it’s a lifestyle. Wrestlers are unlike any other athlete on the planet. Day in and day out you fight, and you fight your friends. Iowa’s head coach Tom Brands says “wrestling is a miniature battle between two people with very strong wills.” This is very true, wrestling is more of a battle than a sport. My best friend Kerik (who now serves our country in the US Army) and I wrestled together every day or senior year. During practice we tried to rip each other’s heads off. We would push each other all over the mat, throw each other around, get mad at one another and see who the best was that day. Once we stepped off that mat we became best friends again. There are no friends on the wrestling mat, you’re there to take care of business and work towards the initial goal, state champion. I’ll never forget the battles we had I remember them like the back of my hand, it’s because those miniature battles helped shaped me into who I am today. Something else that brings me close to wrestling is what wrestlers do to try to be a state champion. A state champion wrestler spends hours and hours practicing, lifting weights, visualizing wrestling and that’s just scratching the surface. A state champion wrestler has to discipline himself with their diets and maintain a certain body weight, not do stupid stuff to get in trouble and blow it, wake up in the morning and workout, maybe even workout three times a day. They spend hours, months and even years sweating, bleeding, crying, practicing, just for 30 seconds of glory win they win the state championship, tell me that’s not crazy. The only way to understand wrestling is to do it, to know what these guys go though it’s unheard of. I finally made it to the state tournament my senior year, I was 39-6 and ranked 6^th in the state going into the tournament. To say the least I choked, I lost in my match to place. It devastated me, to this day it bothers me, it’s because I put so much into the sport just to have my dreams crushed. I’ll never forget that match, I was in shock. I laid on the mat after just getting pinned against a kid I had a 5-1 match with earlier in the year, I thought to myself “this is how it ends, last high school match ever and I gave up.” It haunts me. Now I still help coach the same team I wrestled for in high school, republic. I help a few kids who want it as bad as I did, I promised them I would do anything in my power to help take them to the top and be state champions. I will never give up on them till they reach their goals. Wrestling is more than a sport, it’s a lifestyle. No one will understand that until they have wrestled, and no one has the right to ever judge a wrestler. “Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy.”-Dan Gable. This is another quote I live by, Gable was an Olympic champion. Wrestling has truly shaped me and changed my life, I believe in wrestling and what it does for boys and girls, women’s wrestling is a growing sport. I always recommend wrestling to kids starting to get involved in sports, it’s a hard sport but in the end it is very rewarding. You don’t have to be a state champion when it’s all said and done, just as long as you never give up and try your hardest.  

I Believe Essay

I believe in doing what you want in life. I believe if you have a dream, protect it, and don’t let anyone tell you that you are not capable of achieving your goals. It doesn’t matter the size of your goal, what it is, or if it’s even logical, if you believe in achieving something you love, then go after it. Life is too short to not try and achieve what you have always wanted to achieve. If your dream is a chef, go be a chef, if your dream is to be a firefighter, be a firefighter, if you want to be a professional athlete, pick a sport and go after it and never look back. I know it sounds so easy right? Just pick a sport and become a professional just because you like it. If only it was that easy. I know that many of us a mental blocks, I know this because I too have one. We look at all these professional athletes and say “wow their great, their just naturals and didn’t have to work for what they have,” but that’s not the case. Anybody that is great at what they do have done repetition after repetition after repetition of what they are great at. One of my favorite quote from my high school wrestling coach was “when he wakes up he puts his pants on one leg at a time just like you.” This to me means even though we may have an undefeated state champion to wrestle he is still human and has had to work hard and go through the same stuff as us to be where he is today, he just did extra. Another of my favorite quotes is by Eric Thomas, he says “when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, that’s when you will be successful.” To me that quote is so true, when you are obsessed with a goal and you eat, breathe and sleep with that goal, that is when you will be successful. In order to be great at something you have to be willing to do things other will not. Like get out of bed at 5am to get in a morning workout, or do homework or anything extra you can do to be great at what you love. It may be a long journey and it defiantly will not happen overnight. It may take week, months, or even years before you start to stand out from others at what you do. But I am a firm believer if you set your mind to something, nothing will stop you. Doing what you want it life doesn’t just mean being a professional athlete, that’s just the wrestler inside me speaking. Doing what you want could also mean traveling the world, or owning your own restaurant, or find new hobbies or interest, I don’t know because it’s totally up to you. Personally I could care less to see the world. I’ve seen the beach and that’s where I want to live so I am happy, but if you want to see the world who’s right is it to tell you no? Life is too short to sit around and take orders from people who you really don’t care for too much. One of my philosophies in life is “you have your whole life to work, do what you want to do and who cares about money.” When you did you don’t take your money to heaven with you. I know this philosophy drives my parents nuts, but in a way its true right? Do what you love, obviously do what you have to also, but take more interest in what makes you happy! The money will come. I train a few of my buddies for wrestling and I always tell them they can be a state champion if they put in the work and believe, believe is the key word there. If you don’t believe you can do something then why do it? It’s mental, believe it or not but even though wrestling is a physical sport, 90% of it is mental. The battle is won before either wrestle steps on the mat. I still struggle with believing I can do anything.

Gobstopper Story

1.     Willie went to the candy store.

2.     On his way home Willie showed off his new red gobstopper to the neighborhood animals.

3.     While playing with his gobstopper he dropped it down the street drain.

4.     Willie’s gobstopper went on an adventure down the drain.

5.     At the end at the drain Willie’s gobstopper became fish food.

6.     Howard the fisherman went fishing with his grandchildren and caught a big fish.

7.     One night at dinner Howard and his wife Martha were enjoying the fish Howard caught earlier that day. When Martha cut into the fish she the gobstopper.

8.     Martha hated gobstoppers so she through it out in the trash.

9.     The Roubideaux space garbage man came down from outer space and collect the garbage which contained the gobstopper.

10.                         Roubideaux number 1 was emptying the trash when he came across the gobstopper.

11.                         Roubideaux 14 decided to taste the candy so he spit it into the dark abyss of outer space.

12.                         Space man Fred found the gobstopper floating in space.

13.                         The now famous gobstopper became famous by appearing on the nightly news.

14.                         While at the Museum Willie discovered his gobstopper.

15.                         One night two robbers broke into the museum and stole the gobstopper. 

16.                         The next day the missing gobstopper makes the paper worldwide.

17.                         Willie tells the police how that is his gobstopper and the police chase down his gobstopper.

18.                         The go on a wild car chase to the airport.

19.                         The robbers drop the gobstopper out of the plane.

20.                         It falls and hits some innocent farm animals.

21.                         Willie is now sad thinking he will never find his gobstopper again.

22.                         At Willie’s 50^th birthday party a bird picks up the gobstopper from her nest thinking that it is an egg.

23.                         While carrying the gobstopper the bird drops it and it falls and hits Willie’s window.

24.                         It bounded through the window and hits Willie in the head.

25.                         Willie is now happy because he found his long lost gobstopper.  

First Date

On the night of the first date I had with my girlfriend we got in a car accident. Everything was going great up to that point, I picked her up around 5ish we had to take her friend home real quick cause she needed a ride. After we dropped her friend off we went to a pizza place called Garbo’s, its in the chersterfield village. We both like the same stuff on pizza so we ordered a pizza and a side salad to share. We sat and ate for  a while and talked and just had a good time. After dinner I built up the courage to finally hold her hand, I figured by this point it was pretty much official. We drove around for a while and decided sense it was still early to stop at starbucks and get some coffee. We went inside and got some coffee then went back to the car to talk for another hour or so just about life before we met each other. Things were going great, I mean what could possibly ruin this night? It was by far the best first date ever. My dad texed me just as we were about to leave and said be careful driving home its starting to sleet. I said okay and figured everything would be okay. I was driving safe! So I thought. We were almost home, so close just about 5 miles away! One moment were holding hands talking, the next the jeep is sideways sliding down M highway. I try to correct but by this time its to late were sliding on a sheet of ice, now we just hang on for the ride. We slide off and embankment and through a barbwire fense.  We slide into the middle of a field and finally stop and are tangled in barbwire. I manage to free my jeep from the barbwire so we can get out of the car and call for help. Luckily one of my neighbors drove by as it happended and stopped to help us get out of the field. We drove off unhurt, jeep was a little hurt though. Called my dad and told him my girlfriend called her parents to tell them of the situation. As crazy of a night it turned out to be it was defintally a story ill never forget it will be a great story to tell our kids one day. Best first date ive ever had. The funny thing is I hadn’t even met her parents yet! Crazy enough they let me date her still! Someone was defintally watching over us that night to the left and right of our sides was tree stumps and fense post. We were very fortunate.

 

 

Things were going great, I mean what could possibly ruin this night? It was by far the best first date ever. It sironic because we got in a wreck! Everyting was going so good! Overall im glad it happened. Because enow we have a story to tell. Its not your traditional first date story dinner and a movie. At the time we were scarred to death but now we look back and laugh at it. We actually just got in another carr accident together on new years eve. A Deer ran out in front of us on our way to my grandmas house and we hit it. Luckly no one was hurt, except maybe the deer the deer ran off I have no idea if it died or not. At least the two wrecks weve had we were togheter and no one was hurt! We defantally have a guardian angel watching over us.we definally have fun together when we hang out, we go on tris and stuff. Last year we went to oklahmoa city t owatch the ncaa wrestling tournament, this year we are going to st.louis to watch it again on march 21^st. she got me the tickets as my birthday present. The road trips we have together are fun, we bring snacks and jam out to music, Kelsey usually sleeps in the morning for a ehile then she wakes up and talks to me. Driving home at night is the worst part. We tend to halusinate whe we ddrive at night. Its crazy how much the road plays tricks with your mind. At one point I thought I saw a golf cart driving on the road. When it was kelseys turn tor drive she thought she saw aliens. We pulled over ast a rest stop to take a quick nap. Even though it was only like 11;30 wewere soooo tired. Im used to going to bed at im used to going to bed at ;like 10 im pretty lame. My girlfriend usually goes to bed at like 10 also. Im ready for the weekend it will be fun we have date night tonight, its for sure the best night of the week. My girlfriend goes to C of O.

Fear

Fear, what do I fear the most, I fear death. I don’t really fear death its self, I fear not knowing how or when I will die. It just kinda freaks me out. I like to think ill die in my sleep and it will be painless, but you never know till that time comes. I hope I get to live a long full life and be successful. I want to have a family and a house of my own that I paid for and a car of my own that I paid for. I look forward to when I have a family and kids and growing old. But theres always that fear of death lingering in my mind. I’d like to see what I could achieve before I go, I’d like my life to be of some significance. I really want to be able to do things I want to. I’m not one to have a “bucket list” I have pretty simple goals, but I’d like to leave this earth knowing I gave 110% and I left it all on the table. It’s a really depressing topic talking about death, great now im gonna be depressed the rest of the day, ive been doing good all day! I’m personally working on not fearing as much anymore, I have anxiety that kicks in and makes me worry and afraid of stuff that hasent even happened and probably never will, its just stuff I make up in my mind. My girlfriend always tells me to pray about it, so I do. i guess I could also say im afraid of not knowing what to do with my life. I’ve been waiting on my calling for some time now, just waiting. It kinda scares me not knowing what I want to do with my life, like I said I’d like to know what im capabale of doing before I leave earth. Theres several things I want to do, fight an mma fight, do a mud runner, graduate college, have a family and get married, have a career, etc. I guess I need to stop worrying so much. I fear things that haven’t even happened. I wish I didn’t fear so many things. Im working on it though. I need some more coffee, im tired.