Anyone wanna play catch?

Life is a system. A calculated formula. Or at least that's what I want it to be.

I am a man of logic. A man of order. I like to plan my future. Immediate and not so immediate.

Not in an obsessive compulsive way, though.
I do not have a daily schedule. And I am very messy and disorganized. With everything.

And yet, I like to feel that I have control over the order in which events occur in my life.
This is completely absurd to say the least. Who REALLY has full control of their own life?

I sleep more comfortable at night knowing that in two more years I'm going to graduate from Hunter College and acquire a Bachelors degree.

I sleep more comfortable at night knowing that I am not going to be fired from my job.

I sleep more comfortable at night knowing that I'm smarter than almost every person that I've ever gone to school with in my life.

Apparently, I'm not sleeping comfortable tonight because it's 1 A.M. and I'm writing a blog instead of sleeping.

Big boys don't need bed times leave me alone.

Am I the only person who remembers the "I'm a big kid now!" commercial?
I just failed for remembering the slogan and not the product

*Does quick Google search*
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Oh yeah!!! Huggies Pull Up's Training Pants.

What the hell was I talking about? Oh right, um sleeping comfortable.

None of the three situations that I mentioned are hardly fact.
I may never graduate. I may get fired tomorrow. And I may be a complete idiot.

But I feel like I can control my own destiny. Whatever that means.

Logic and creative writing almost never go hand in hand.

This very blog, to most of you readers, probably makes no sense whatsoever.
But it makes much sense to me. And only me really understands me.

Oh, my mom understands me too. Most of the time. I love you mom! <3

I have a mathematics background, and although my mastery and passion of the English language has guided my academic career since I entered college, the logistic and formulaic structure of mathematics is still at the core of my day to day thinking patterns.

But that has been steadily changing.

I was once entrenched into a state of mind where success and happiness was defined by the endpoint of life. Completely disregarding the struggle that was The Journey.

The Journey is a metaphor I use constantly.

The Journey is substance.
The Journey is perseverance.
The Journey is adversity.

Unfortunately for me, this state of mind that I was once in, evolved into a culture.

A young Tupac Shakur once said, "measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.”

This quote has lived on with me ever since I had the privilege of hearing it.
But it was going to take more than a quote to make me realize that I was in a culture of drowning in superficiality.

There was only one thing in this world that opened my eyes.

And it's name is Sports.

Sports are a microcosm of life.

I can honestly say that I have learned more about life watching and listening to sports than I have in any academic institution I have ever been to.

The greatest lesson that sports has taught me is that changing a culture is extremely difficult.

Sports teams serve a number of different purposes and the best sports teams are the ones that have the most organized, motivated, and hard working culture.

And only the greatest minds of the sporting world have the capacity to change an entire culture of a team and turn it into a winner.

Bill Parcells with the New York Giants, and Joe Torre with New York Yankees, two legendary and iconic ambassadors of success, are clear examples of what can happen when a person is able to identify with their team and get the best out of their players.

It starts with the establishment of a hard working culture.

A professional sports team serves the role of a brotherhood, a tradition, an unconditional passion, a business, a spectator event.

And for die hard fans: a reason to live.

I can go on and on about every single specific aspect of sports and how it relates and influences the culture of my life, but the most important connection that drives me to be a fan of sports, other than the significance of a great leader, is the fact that human nature plays such a profound role in the greatness of an athlete.

The way an athlete performs under immense pressure impacts their wins and losses.
The way an athlete maintains their health impacts their performance.
The way an athlete communicates with teammates impacts their team chemistry.

This skill set transcends the free throw line and the end zone.
It is not a skill set for a great athlete it's a skill set for a great human being.

I can go to sleep more comfortable tonight knowing this.