Life
I came across a quote and I liked it and even took it a little bit further. The final quote came out to be “Live the life you love, not the life others want you to love.”
I feel that one should do what they want with their lives. Since my family owns a business, there are people that I’ve come to love and respect, that expect me to finish college then go back to Arkansas and take over the store. But that’s not what I want to do. Now yes, after awhile, I would like to do that, but I love sports and I want to become a basketball coach. Thats what I love. I love teaching and I’ve learned so much in the past two years from our coaches and the coaches I met at camps. That’s why the store isn’t my first option. As much as I love the store and the employees (past, present, and future), I need to do something that I wake up everyday and get excited about, and right now that’s basketball. Now maybe in 20 years that will be the store, but its not right now.
This summer, when Coach Tim Heskett called me and told me he wasn’t going to be coming back to Lynn and that he was getting out of coaching, he said something that has stuck with me, and will continue to stick with me, “If your heart isn’t 100% in something, then get out of it.” It’s only a couple of words, but they are so true and so powerful.
So again, “Live the life you love, not the life others want you to love.”
Gene
