stream of unconciousness

basketball season is around the bend, just want to have everybody wish the UP College of Law Basketball team luck.  do it.  do it. do it.

basketball is probably the only thing that can keep me occupied without being bored for more than 6 hours.  in high school i used to play ALONE, AT NOON, in our school’s OPEN COURT, in my GALA UNIFORM.  for PE we would play it until we HAD to leave (imagine having a class you actually wanted to go to), in college we’de play until the old twins or Jong from the covered courts would literally shut the lights out on us. i don’t understand it.  When it comes to studying and all that, i can hardly last 30 mins…but when it comes to basketball, you sometimes wish it would never end.  thinking about it, studying shouldn’t be that boring! 

first of all, you KNOW you’ll get something out of it.  the effort you put in will automatically have an effect on your academic performance (not to mention, added knowledge, which is always good), so if you’re really greedy, you can study all day, and go to sleep with the cozy feeling of getting a 1.25 in the subject, getting on the honors list, scoring a plush job, making your first mil in your first year as a lawyer, having a yacht…you get the idea.

let’s compare that to basketball…what do we get out of it?  NU-THING…well, a good workout probably.  you get rough hands, calloused feet, have to spend on basketball gear, gym reservations, you get tired and sweaty, you have to buy water or gatorade after…but for some reason people, like me (there are a lot of us), would choose it over studying no questions asked, any day of the week, rain or shine.  coz it’s fun?  what in the hell makes it fun?!?! 

ugh, if someone could find the element to an activity that makes it ‘fun’ and apply it to whatever endevour is the most hassel for people…we’d live in a perfect world.  PERFECT.  if you like what you do, you keep doing it, and you eventually end up doing it really really well.  when you love what you’re doing and do it really well, you’re a happy guy, and happy guys are infectious, your whole family would be happy, parent’s wouldnt beat their kids and spouses.  nobody would grow up to be criminals.  and even if there are still going to be criminals (due to their not having benefitted from the ‘perfect world’ set up as kids), there’s always the application of the ‘fun’ element to them..(meaning they’d be able to get jobs narin and enjoy their lives, not needing crime). 

man, if anybody knows of any study that pinpoints what makes something ‘fun’…tell me, please…that could very well be the key to a great future for me…and for AHLLLLLL the laaaaaahnd.

only problem lang…everybody’ll apply the fun ‘element’ to the most high paying endevours (academics malamang)…if that becomes the case, i’m sticking to being a basketball enthusiast…there aren’t going to be that many of us left by that time…i’m sure society’d be glad to pay us for the function we fill…just to have us around.  a reminder of the old life, back when there were such things as slackers:)

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