Create and Destroy.

"It's easy to be a critic, easy to tear things down, easy to be blind. It's a braver thing to build, to create and to surprise." : Jamie Tworkowski of To Write Love On Her Arms

I try my hardest to build and not destroy.
I try to love and not dislike.
I try and fail.
I am human.
Trying is only half of the battle.
The other half is discovery.

July 7, 2010; 8:39ish pm; Sports.

Today, I figured out the reason why I will never play sports...aside from the fact that I completely suck at them to begin with, of course.

When you play, say, baseball, a sport I've grown close to over the years via my brothers, you're always playing your team against another team. Sure, each team has screaming fans (parents, more or less), but there's always that idea that someone on that other team's side, whether it be a player or a parent, can't stand you. Now, it might not mean YOU specifically, but you're TEAM. I mean hey, we all want to win. But if you think about it, someone still wants you to fail. And I don't think I could handle knowing that. I hardly understand how a 7 year old could handle it.

-Courtney Jayel

A new old hero.

Today, I saw a post on my favorite magazine Alternative Press' facebook about an article on their website written by one of my heroes, Jamie Tworkowski from To Write Love On Her Arms. Being my curious self, I decided to read maybe a paragraph or two in the story.

Now, as I started reading, I wasn't really impressed with the first couple sentences, being as they were a description of a book he was reading. But I had already read several other stories and writings by this amazing man, so I kept reading on, thinking, "It'll get better. It has to. It's Jamie."

And, let me tell you, did it get better.

Instead of this article being about characters in the book he read or another thing about the organization, it was a combination of his thoughts on the book, his personal experiences and the fact that you cannot cure the ignorance & cynicism.

I'd say more about how great it was and everything, but I'll just post a link to it instead.


http://www.altpress.com/contributors/entry/the_only_kind_they_fear/


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