Daily Archives: February 18, 2009

I’ve gotten to the top 10 most influential individuals. I just want to make some small points before moving on. Every single person on this list is on it regardless of who else is, no person affects another’s standing. The only differences between the members of this ranking are the ranking itself and the individual affects on my life. It is easy to assume that number 1 is “better” than number 20, but this should not be done. Also, some of the affects up until this point have been hard to explain, as some people have had more of a “feeling” affect than one that I can put into words. The top 10 though, I speculate, will all be longer than the bottom half. With that being said, time to move on.

T.J. represents another athletic-based influence. I met him in gym class of my junior year. For some reason, we melded well, always choosing each other for the same team and things of that nature. We joined forces for our first dodgeball tournament, with him asking me to be on his team, which needed players. To me, we made the second best 1-2 punch in my gym class career in terms of knowing the other person’s abilities, excercising good teamwork, and overall statistics. 

The greatest thing I took from knowing T.J. was admiring him and the work he did. I played my best when he did and vice versa. I felt glad to know him, due to him being part of the “cool” crowd, a group I wasn’t much a part of that year, so I felt accepted. I learned teamwork from him as well, helping other people out to make them better.