Truth Hurts

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People hate the truth, but people love controversy … ironic?

White lie’s make smiles through all the sympathy they speak. Howard Stern makes millions for saying what white lies try to hide. And I -I say as much as I can within my limits.

Yes, unfortunately I have limits. I play for a team I must somewhat represent, a coach that wants to avoid hearing things she doesn’t have to hear and a future job that wants nothing to do with my mischievous college talk.

With that being said, I know that people hate the truth. I also know that I am no Howard Stern, so what I prefer to do is speak exaggerated reality –similar to the truth, except better.

My Tuesday thoughts, written in place of lecture notes, will not help me pass the final, but they will better explain the purpose behind exaggerated reality.

Everyone loves a good love song, you know why?

Because everyone that hasn’t found it, knows it’s coming.

Everyone that has it believes in it.

And everyone that’s lost it hopes for it to play again.

These four lines are exaggerated reality. Sure I’d like to believe in them, but after reading them over, I thought I should rewrite them as follows:

Everyone loves a good love song. The lyric’s tug on our hearts and our childhood dreams of the fairytale Cinderella story, but truth is:

Those who haven’t found love have no idea what’s coming.

Those who have found love, search for reasons it could end.

Those who have lost love are thankful it ended because his/her snoring was obnoxious.

You hated how pessimistic my second stanza was, go ahead and admit it. Even I hated to rewrite what I originally shared. I hate the truth.

On Monday evening, all teams were required to attend an awards ceremony. The baseball coach was unable to attend, so in his place an injured senior captain recapped the season.

“Well as you all know, I’m broken,” he stated. “That pretty much explains our season (short pause) we’re broken. We’ve basically been broken since the first pitch of the season.”

Absolutely priceless. The entire audience went silent. Every coach dropped their jaw and the look on the athletic director’s face made me wonder if he was going to take back the microphone. I love controversy.

Sure, he could have spoken about how although they are having an iffy start, good things are sure to come, but all I would have heard was “Blah, blah, blah, boring white lies.”

“So College” Advice: Singer/ songwriter, John Mayer told me (or at least I felt like he was speaking to me) to “Say what you need to say.” He’s right. Say what you need to say and whether it’s exaggerated, truthful or total, utter nonsense, you better say it convincingly. People will always hate the truth, but what people may hate more is “blah, blah, blah, boring white lies.”