giant

"you picked a good year to follow the giants... and people can't even call you a bandwagon fan because you started following them in the regular season when they were behind the padres."
-- classmate nate
got me thinking. . .
i think i have a giant annoyance with people that compare me to everyone else for several reasons; i have one, though, in particular that i think is very important.
in the course of history, the masses never had it right.
to be "like everyone else" was never a celebration.
the fad was never wise.
there was always ONE person who actually thought to start anything that was RIGHT. see martin luther king jr., martin luther, rosa parks, henry david thoreau. they were never popular. they were never LIKE anyone else. they were actually very UNpopular. People didn't necessarily LIKE them. People became very UNcomfortable with them.
i want to be great. i have great plans for myself. i don't want to be like everyone else.
i want to follow the greats and be a thinker. people may not like me, that's fine. as long as i live by my convictions, i can say that i have been honest with myself & have embraced the life as i live it.
maybe i am being pretentious. maybe i am reaching for too much.
i have one life.
why the hell not!? :)