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My OTC experience with the National Junior Team
The trip was incredible. It made me realize how blessed I am to be part of a team with so much sprit and love. I got to see many of my friends from Jr. Pan Pacs, and meet some new people too. I also got to hangout with Aaron Piersol, Katie Hoff, and Brendan Hansen....they swam with us and shared their experiences with us.
We had a lot of presentations- including drug testing, sports psychology, nutrition, and safe sport but the one I thought was most interesting was with guest speaker Tyler Hamilton. He shared his story and I was surprised at how open he was about all of it. He said he lived a lie for 14 years, hiding from the doping control officers, and that doping was a huge part of the cycling culture. It was a very interesting talk and I was surprised with how open he was. He said he would send each swimmer a copy of his autobiography, which was very nice of him.
The last day we went on a hike that reached an elevation of 12,000 feet. The trail was literally a straight up flight of stairs and it was very challenging. There were times were I had to use my arms to pull my body over the steps because they were so steep. I felt so accomplished once reaching the top, 2,761 steps later.
I was really sad to say goodbye to all my friends.....this summer I will be too old to qualify for the Junior World Championships team, but I have been selected as an alternate for the World University Games, and hopefully I will make that! :) I'm very excited.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
Ray Bradbury (via nagging)
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You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course, but don’t kid yourself: it’s also the flinch.
Your personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most enjoyable thing in the world, but it’s really just a habit. Thirty days without it, and you would be fine. You think you have a soul mate, but in fact you could have had any number of spouses. You would have evolved differently, but been just as happy.
You can change what you want about yourself at any time. You see yourself as someone who can’t write or play an instrument, who gives in to temptation or makes bad decisions, but that’s really not you. It’s not ingrained. It’s not your personality. Your personality is something else, something deeper than just preferences, and these details on the surface, you can change anytime you like.
If it is useful to do so, you must abandon your identity and start again. Sometimes, it’s the only way.
Set fire to your old self. It’s not needed here. It’s too busy shopping, gossiping about others, and watching days go by and asking why you haven’t gotten as far as you’d like. This old self will die and be forgotten by all but family, and replaced by someone who makes a difference.
Your new self is not like that. Your new self is the Great Chicago Fire—overwhelming, overpowering, and destroying everything that isn’t necessary.
Julien Smith. (via nagging)
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When you start to really know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.
Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies (via nagging)
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have discovered so many things about myself that I didn't realize. I am always learning. I am so thankful that life gives me opportunities to change my past to make it better.
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Taking a break from my 5-page paper to share this brief insightful thought
Every person's experience is created internally, by him or herself. If you feel hurt by something or someone, it is the result of your decision to feel that way. Tough to hear, but it is true.
Life is how YOU make it. You can change your mind at any moment about how something is affecting you. Life is subjective.
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Holding hands may seem like an innocent gesture, but they show more than a simple interlocking of fingers. Your hands are one of the most essential parts of your body: you build with them, feed with them, hold with them, touch with them, fight with them; they are the tools of the human body. To take a hold of another’s hand is to break from living individually. It is to link yourself to another being, to momentarily entwine your life with anothers, to promise, for a moment, that you need not face the world alone. More simple, more aesthetically naive than other forms of affection, i.e kissing, hugging, sex, the act of holding hands is often trivialized in its true implications.
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48 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life
1. You can’t change other people, and it’s rude to try.
2. If you’re talking to someone you don’t know well, you may be talking to someone who knows way more about whatever you’re talking about than you do.
3. Everyone likes somebody who gets to the point quickly.
4. Bad moods will come and go your whole life, and trying to force them away makes them run deeper and last longer.
5. Children are remarkably honest creatures until we teach them not to be.
6. If everyone in the TV show you’re watching is good-looking, it’s not worth watching.
7. Yelling always makes things worse.
8. Whenever you’re worried about what others will think of you, you’re really just worried about what you’ll think of you.
9. Every problem you have is your responsibility, regardless of who caused it.
10. If you never doubt your beliefs, then you’re wrong a lot.
11. Nobody has it all figured out.
12. Every passing face on the street represents a story every bit as compelling and complicated as yours.
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works alone can teach you everything you need to know about living with grace and happiness.
14. When people are uncomfortable with the present moment, they fidget with their hands or their minds. Watch and see.
15. Those who complain the most, accomplish the least.
16. Putting something off makes it instantly harder and scarier.
17. A person who is unafraid to present a candid version of herself to the world is as rare as diamonds.
18. If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe, there is probably a better course of action.
19. The greatest innovation in the history of humankind is language.
20. Blame is the favorite pastime of those who dislike responsibility.
21. Everyone you meet is better than you at something.
22. Knowledge is belief, nothing more.
23. What makes human beings different from animals is that animals can be themselves with ease.
24. Whoever you are, you will die. To know and understand that means you are alive.
25. High quality is worth any quantity, in possessions, friends and experiences.
26. The world would be a better place if everyone read National Geographic.
27. If you aren’t happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship.
28. Even if it costs no money, nothing is free if it takes time.
29. “Gut feeling” is not just a euphemism. Tension in the abdomen speaks volumes about how you truly feel about something, beyond all arguments and rationales.
30. Everyone thinks they’re an above average driver.
31. By default, people think far too much.
32. If anything is worth splurging on, it’s a high-quality mattress. You’ll spend a third of your life using it.
33. There is nothing worse than having no friends.
34. Words are immensely powerful. One cruel remark can wound someone for life.
35. It’s easy to make someone’s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.
36. It is worth re-trying foods that you didn’t like at first.
37. Problems, when they arise, are rarely as painful as the experience of fearing them.
38. Nothing — ever — happens exactly like you pictured it.
39. North Americans are generally terrible at accepting compliments and offers of help.
40. There are not enough women in positions of power. The world has suffered from this deficit for a long time.
41. Anyone can be calmed in an instant by looking at the ocean or the stars.
42. Life is a solo trip, but you’ll have lots of visitors. Some of them are long-term, most aren’t.
43. The fewer possessions you have, the more they do for you.
45. Einstein was wiser than he was intelligent, and he was a genius.
46. Wishing things were different is a great way to torture yourself.
47. The ability to be happy is nothing other than the ability to come to terms with how things change.
48. Killing time is an atrocity. It’s priceless, and it never grows back.
-Thought Catalog
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