Connecting
i can totally relate to the things that slim said in the blog about if only he had turned in his transcript to transfer high schools. we all have things in our lives that we regret at the time or even later on down the road. in his case he feels that if he would only have transferred schools he would be around better people, a better basketball program, and would have had more opportunities than the ones that he has. i believe that everyone can closely relate to that. maybe not exactly about transferring high school but about how they could have put themselves in a better position or place but at the time chose not to do anything about it. you see a prime example of this almost everyday with kids our age going off to parties and drinking and doing drugs. they could have very easily made the good conscious decision to just say no and walk away to put themselves in a better position and get out of that place but instead for those few moments they stayed and maybe ended up getting in trouble. i was in the same situation as he was a few times throughout my life. every four years i have changed school and towns and everything and i look back at it as one of the best decisions that i have ever made but on the other hand i feel like i left a big part of me behind each time i moved and i still have regrets about leaving all of my good friends behind. i guess that it would appear that i am more on the opposite side of the fence as he is because i always keep leaving where as he did not. and almost every day i think about if only i would have stayed how would my life be right now. would i have the same kind of life that i do now. would i have even had the opportunities that i was given at my high school. the answers are all probably no, i moved from a not so great place up to a better place. i made the necessary changes in my life to prevent my life from going down the wrong path. so i believe that i can closely relate to the feelings that he was feeling when he was faced with the decision to leave and transfer high school or not.
