Warm and Cool Runnings
I am not a handyman as I stated before. And I will only do things like this (a) for someone I love and/or (b) out of necessity. I’ve been unable to do many of the things that asshole Shush has told me to do. The basic reason behind it is that this is NOT what I do for a living. He doesn’t seem to realize that I am not a carpenter, a repair man or even a handyman. I am an artist, an author, a businessman, a designer, a visionary and a lot of other things that don’t even come close to what he wants. I am an intellectual damn it! During physical education, I usually found a spot in the shade or in a corner where the coach would not see me. I would read, I would write, I would draw and I would try to ensure that the coach did not see me because he would probably make me do something terrible like play basketball, football or something like that.
The one thing that never bothered me during physical education was running laps. I was exceedingly good at this, given the fact that I had the tendency to piss people off so it was important to get the hell out of there and damn quick. In fact, I remember having the third best time in the entire middle school I went to. I was asked by the coaches if I would join the track team and I just declined. My philosophy is not to do it for athletic exercise, it was out of necessity. I needed to run to keep people off my back or to get to classes on time to avoid the ultra short times between classes. This was further substantiated during high school when I wanted to get to lunch on time - considering I was usually pretty damn hungry. That and I had a few friends that I liked to sit with. At first, I found it quite odd that I was sitting and having lunch with athletes (people from the school’s teams) but I found that these weren’t just athletes. These were people, intellectuals like me caught in a trap of their own making.
After graduation I continued to run, again, out of necessity. I needed to get to work on time, I wanted to go somewhere so I could get a new computer game or whatever or for some other reason. But it wasn’t until I got to Canada that I used my running to actually further contemplation of what is happening, ideas or that cute girl I’m too shy to talk to is thinking. So it evolved from being merely a physical activity to being something that furthered my intellectual abilities. So, now - if I am pissed off or just in need of some serious contemplation (or possibly munchies) - I will go running. In fact, unless it’s to a really long distance - I am not going to use public transit.
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