The Haircut Episode

Recently I have begun to start cutting on other people's hair and experiment with my own. After experimenting with my hair a lot last year and the many different designs and carvings that could be constructed from it, I started to become pretty interested in cutting hair. I usually keep a shaved head so I have my own clippers and I've just been using my clippers on others and have managed to keep this is a non-profit hobby because the haircuts I've provided have been to people within my close group of friends. There's no need or motivation for making money when you're doing something so creative and fun such as cutting hair into ridiculous designs for your good friends. It is also an way for me to express my creative side and my passion for the arts, and with cutting hair I feel like I'm providing a nice and helpful duty by offering a sharp hairdo free of charge amidst the busy and sporadic nature of college life. It's kind of like a way to calm down and relax when there's a couple guys hanging out on the balcony free of stress and worries while a haircut or two take place. The favor goes both ways as my friends will also willingly cut my hair for me and although I haven't sported a crazy hairdo in a while, I feel like I'm bound to have one of my friends give me a design before the semester ends. I really enjoy seeing my hair all carved up and intricate because it shows that I'm not afraid to express myself and it shows that I like to try new things and experiment in life. The other week I decided to let my friend randomly cut my hair into a "fade," a style I've never had before and I was willing to accept the consequences because it's not worth it to not attempt something when you're only young once. My immense trust in my friends has been established because of our haircut gatherings as well because we have all become accustomed to the fact that we can all basically rely on anyone of each other for an exceptional haircut.

More Theater and Making Important Decisions Amidst Problems

Theater is now beginning to be a lot more fun than I had expected as we are working on the play Illuminati and rehearsing our scenes and such. I actually played some pretty intense soccer for two hours before my last rehearsal and after I got there and got settled in we were going through one of our scenes. The scene was supposed to have two actors talking together with me and then me and one of the two actors suddenly disperse after the conversation.  As the two of us disperse the other actor left was supposed to attack another actor who comes on stage by flailing his arms and pretending to hit him. However, as me and one of the two actors were exiting the stage, the one actor that was supposed to stay and beat up the other character ended up accidentally striking me in the mouth very hard. I bled a lot and there's a lengthy deep wound on my lip that I can basically always feel but it did make for a good story. I mean it is pretty ironic to play some intense soccer for two hours and not get injured and then go to a theater rehearsal and thirty minutes into the rehearsal get punched in the face. However I also felt that the incident was so minor and petty in the scheme of things that it wasn't worth letting my spirit and attitude change. I figured it would be a waste of time and illogical to let this cut ruin my night as an actor and possibly the days following the incident. I figured I also might as well look on the bright side because I could've been seriously injured from that. I just try to apply this principle to my life as much as I can because it's so important to me to have a good attitude in life and not let things that you can't control get in the way of reaching your goals or maintaining the same attitude. 

Another obstacle I just encountered was today when I had to decide what classes to register for next semester and this was very important because I'll need to declare my major by the end of that semester and should be close to deciding on a major or getting a better idea of what I'd want to major in by now. So I essentially decided my major in a roundabout way because I had to decide the classes that I want to take next year and I figured I should be taking more classes for my major. Furthermore, because I'm planning on double majoring, which would require a lot of classes, I almost have no choice but to take classes to fulfill my majors. After having a pretty serious and honest conversation with my academic advisor I felt comfortable enough to basically figure out what I will be majoring in. I made sure my choice felt right to me by pondering on the implications and possibilities that could arise from my majors. 

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Theater and Rapping

Ever since I started getting back in shape and playing soccer again this semester I've become increasingly anxious about playing in the spring with the team. School is already getting to me as well. I keep on finding myself wondering when winter break will arrive. Other than the usual, I've been keeping myself busy by rapping a lot and working on videos with my suite mate and roommate. Last year we would find ourselves bored a lot and found a good use of our time through rap sessions and making videos. Although most of us weren't very sharp when we first began rapping, we became increasingly good at it and it has definitely carried over from last year to this year, as we are collecting more and more instrumental songs to rap to as well. It's a good way to bond with friends and to entertain yourself. Besides rapping as a recreational activity, I have started making songs again with my friend from last year and making music videos for the songs we make. One of the songs we produced together last year aired on Tiger TV and the new music video we just made will be aired on Tiger TV as well. Working on all this allowed me to explore the arts through producing music and acting, and it has also allowed me to become more interested in theater, as I am currently taking Intro to Theater. I really enjoy expressing myself through both mediums of acting and rapping because of the freedom and creativity that can be created and constructed. Expanding your horizons and possibilities as a human is pretty valuable and significant to me especially in regards to enhancing and enriching what type of person you are. Exploring the many different and beautiful offerings of the world and exploring the boundaries of human potential is a desire that cannot be diminished in me; I'm always willing to try something new. I never limit myself because we only live once, so we might as well experience as much as we can no matter how foreign to us, because beauty comes from the variety of abundance.

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New Friends and the Academic Effects of Redshirting

Luckily for me, one of my new friends who transferred to Trinity from Rollins did not make the team here at Trinity so we decided to train together since I'm just coming back from an injury and it would be a lot more helpful to have another player there to train with. Thus far, I've been training with him every day and we're becoming pretty good friends because his only friends are on the soccer team so I've been the only person he's had to hang out with consistently since I'm redshirting. So it's been benefitting us both by training and hanging out together to make the experience of not playing soccer this year more enjoyable as we are in a similar situation. In addition to this I've been helping him meet others from Trinity to facilitate the process of making friends outside of the soccer team. I also have another friend who transferred to Trinity this year who happens to be on the soccer team but doesn't really have any friends outside the soccer team and I've been hanging out with him a lot as well, mainly one on one, when he's not playing soccer. So I've also been trying to help introduce him to a wider scope of people here at Trinity. I don't know if redshirting has allowed me to become closer to them than playing would but regardless, it's been awesome meeting these two and helping them adjust and enjoy Trinity. Besides having the pleasure of becoming closer to those two than any of the other guys on the team have, I've been noticing that I've been slacking off way more than I usually do. I feel like this is due to not having a major time consuming commitment, such as being on the soccer team, that makes you want to get things done on time. Having soccer practice every day induces an extra awareness and urgency to get things done so not having that urgency has been an adverse affect of not playing with the team. Although I have been training every day it is completely up to me when I want to train and how I want to train, so that decreases that urgency that I usually have that helps me with my studies. Hopefully I'll overcome this need for urgency to work on my studies more efficiently as I become more accustomed to not playing high intensity soccer every day. 

The First Evaluation of Fall Semester without Soccer

Since the week after preseason ended it's been so different this year as a sophmore than it was as a freshmen. The fact that I had decided to redshirt and not play soccer this year in order to fully heal my lingering injuries and to progressively get back in shape has completely changed my expectations of the fall semester. Making the initial decision to redshirt was pretty tough at first; knowing that I could do big things this year on the field and really help our team out was difficult to come to terms with at first. Giving it up was a lot easier when I realized that my decision would ultimately help the team out more as I would be healthy for next year and have an extra year of eligibility to play. Although the first couple of weeks of life without soccer have been a little strange thus far, the experience has helped me understand the importance and benefit that can come from patience and discipline. It has also allowed me to feel more independence and more of an identity separate from soccer which has been interesting as well. Having an objective perspective of the team has also been quite revealing and helpful in  determining and overlooking the team's progression and growth, putting me almost in a coach's seat in terms of observing the team from any spectrum weather it's on or off the field. So because of that I've been giving a lot of the guys advice and insight onto what I'm seeing from the team thus far. As the season goes on I don't know if i will have the same outlook and the same bond with my teammates as I did last year during the fall but as of now I feel like that will be the case even though I am redshirting just because of how close I am with the guys on the team and how infatuated I am with our team's success. The fact that I'm redshirting has had no negative impact on my friendships within the team and has allowed me to grow stronger bonds to those outside soccer as well. So although at first I was not ecstatic about my soccer situation I have begun to enjoy experiencing a different type of trinity without a commitment like soccer every day.