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aLLaLONE
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since 2000-09-25
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0 posted 2000-09-26 07:43 PM


“Go All Out!”
That’s what I’ve been telling myself lately when I think I can’t do something. “Go all out, It’s senior year, and there can’t be any regrets!” I think it came from my best friend who has been almost all my life the “smallest guy on the team”, but always the one with the biggest heart. We worked at this kid’s camp during the summer and there was this girl that worked with us too. Everything about her was great. Personality, sense of humor, (ummm) posture. I was always scared of asking her out and practically waited the whole summer. When I finally mustered up the courage to ask her there was another guy at work that already made a move. Now in’t that a *****! Not the girl, but my life in general. So I start actually trying to do something with my situation. Only one problem it’s almost the end of summer and I have to go to a camp. So what would you do? Well I thought about it and told myself if I really wanted her I should just spill it all, put it all out, and tell her how beautiful she was, how her smile can lift me up out of a bad day, and all that other romantic blah blah. You think I did it? Yeah right! I wussied out and wrote it all down on paper and left it on my friends car with a note to give it to her that day. Well a week passes and I check my voicemail. I have like sixteen messages! My phone roamed in San Diego so I couldn’t check the messages you know. Oh, how’d I get to San Diego? No, camp wasn’t there, but right when I got back from camp, I saw my Dad packing the car with luggage. Without telling me previously, it sounded like I was going to San Diego. Which sucked because it was my birthday that week and I really wanted to see my friends, but that’s another story. Where was I? Oh yeah, I flew back alone on an airplane from San Diego and as I was waiting for my dad to pick me up, who was an hour late, from the airport, I checked my messages. I think I really pissed off this guy who was waitng behind me for the phone. Well I checked my messages and I hear this message, it’s my friend talking to two of my other friends and I guess they didn’t know they called me or something because on my voicemail was like a three minute conversation talking about football, cars, and me. My friend told my other two friends the situation I was in, and somewhere in there said that the other guy at work did get with the girl. When I saw my friend I didn’t mention it. I’ve never talked to him about it. Sure we talked about the girl, but that letter I left on his car to give to her, I haven’t even spoken about that since then. I’m not even sure if it got to her. Maybe I’ll find out this week when her school’s football team plays ours. Maybe she’ll say, “Thanks for the letter, you loser!” Or maybe she won’t even be there. It doesn’t really matter to me now. Does it? I’m writing like 800 words on something that doesn’t matter to me? Forget it, that doesn’t matter right now. The story that I just told is to help me illustrate my point that if you don’t go all out someone else will. That once in a lifetime chance, that one opportunity can be gone just as fast as it hit you in the face and said, “Hello It’s me Opportunity!” So I’m just saying that people everyday miss out on good things because there scared, don’t want to try, there afraid of what their friends will think, or just don’t open their eyes and see that life has just handed them something great. Whether it’s relationships, school, sports, or whatever your scenario is, to “go all out” is the best advice I can give you.




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WhtDove
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245
Illinois
1 posted 2000-09-26 11:04 PM


Very interesting story! One of those you spend in regret. Funny I started a thread in the Alley on this very thing.  You've answered it well. I think I will link this into there, so everyone else can read it as well.

Here's the link, take a look:
/pip/Forum6/HTML/000301.html

[This message has been edited by WhtDove (edited 09-26-2000).]

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