Hey blogger babes. I have come to you all with part 2 of my Life Lessons. This one is to appreciate what you have. Again, you may roll your eyes and be like "yeah, whatever" but seriously.
For example, tonight I'm sitting on my couch watching Hawaii Five-0. All of a sudden I get a text from one of the kids I swim with saying, "Please tell me we are getting jackets this year for swim." I have said previously that my mom is in charge of the apparel. Not only that, but she is in charge of the booster club for this year. Now, I have talked to almost all of the seniors about getting shirts, sweatpants, and sweatshirts for this year. Everyone thought it was a great idea. Not only have I been talking to people about it, but we already have jackets. We got Northface-like jackets my sophomore year. The text he sent me was then followed up by, "Like it's out senior year we should do a couple of fund raisers and get really nice jackets. The teams like pretty much done after us." Let me break this down for you. 1) We do fundraisers over the summer and literally no body participates in them. We do the fundraisers so the swimmers don't have to pay for the apparel, to take care of the banquet, and to take care of swimmer/senior gifts at the banquet. Over the summer we did a bowling fundraiser where people buy a $15 ticket to bowl for 2 hours and the swim team gets $10 out of every $15. We had a 41 people show up, but 7 of those 41 were swimmers. Most of the people who showed up were either league bowlers because I work at the bowling alley or families. Not many people responded. The other fundraiser we did this summer was Celebrate Ludlow. We sold water, soda, and chips. Again, we had 5 swimmers sign up out of the 30-35 kids we have. Not even parents signed up. AND LET IT BE KNOW THAT THIS KID DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN EITHER FUNDRAISER. Now 2) The team is not done after we leave. The girl's team still has a lot of underclassmen, and from what I heard, the boy's team might have a few underclassmen. It's not like we're the whole team, cause we're not.
So I politely told him that the new swimmers are getting the jackets we have now and the whole team is getting the shirts, pants, and sweatshirt combo. His response, "wwwaaaaahhhhhh seniors should get really nice jackets. Like swimming was literal out lives and idk I just think we should get something really nice for our senior year." Followed by, "Like I would actually spend the money for it." The seniors get blankets with a team picture on them among other things for our senior gifts. I know I am not the only one who has waiting 4 years for those blankets. I would say the blankets alone are a really nice thing for the seniors. Again, I state that we already have nice jackets. So that's what I told him-- that we already have jackets and we get blankets at the end of the year.
This kid will not drop this. He responds with, "I know but I mean the kind of jackets the boys soccer team has. Those really nice ones they got for state champs." Our boys' soccer team is good, very good. Two years ago, they won states for the second or third time in a row, so every boy on the varsity team got jackets. The jackets they got are nice jackets, but they only got them for winning states. They did not get them for being seniors. I also took this as him pretty much shitting on the apparel we're getting this year even though he has not seen it yet. I really wanted to tell him that if he wants a jacket like that so bad, then he would have to win states. Instead, I went with, "The stuff we're probably getting this ear is nice too though. And we are getting like a lot this year." His response, "I told Karen too and she said it's a good idea and maybe the seniors can get theirs paid for with fundraiser money and other swimmers can buy their own. Idk."
HE WENT TO THE COACH BEFORE HE TALKED TO ANYBODY ELSE ABOUT THIS. At that point I was beyond pissed off. I did not want to deal with this conversation anymore. All I responded with was, "I'll look into them." Maybe him or his parent should go to a damn booster club meeting. Like if you don't go, you should not have the right to complain about anything. You're practically irrelevant. Like legit, this might sound super mean, but I don't really care at this point. Appreciate what you already have because people would probably kill for what you have. I legit get so many compliments on the jackets we have now. Why do we need 2 jackets? We don't. Like oh my goodness.
Remember kids, appreciate what you have. Appreciate what you get. People don't have to be as nice as they are to allow you to receive what you get. So take what you get and don't bitch about it. That is my Life Lesson #2.
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