Assignment 8- Brennan Cegelka

Fears: Family Shame, Baseball
Annoyances: My Brother, Ignorance
Accomplishments: Grades, Happiness
Confusions: Religion
Sorrows: Baseball, Inner Drive
Dreams: Success and Fulfillment
Idiosyncrasies: unknown
Risks: Living in a far unknown place, a month off-grid
Beloved Possessions, Now and Then: Video Games (Then) My CD collection (Now)
Problems: Organization

 Someone is always working harder. Someone is always more talented. Someone is always going to be better. This is the reality in anything competitive. When I’m sound asleep at 5:30AM, there is someone doing pushups in their room or hitting off the tee in a warehouse. I have to work tirelessly to get my arm velocity to 80 MPH, yet some people can through into the 90’s with little to no effort. I could do all the 6:30 A.M. workouts I want; there’s going to be somebody somewhere working harder. What’s my biggest fear? That someone’s better. All I can do is play to the best of my abilities and work as hard as possible. That’s all any of us are capable of. If I come to grips with these facts of competitiveness, I believe that I will overcome this fear. Until then, you know where to find me at 6:30 A.M.