“…all of us will be judged, and as the years pass, we will surely judge ourselves”.

I haven’t sleep well in the last week.
I was volunteering at an urban, preparatory junior/senior high school in New Jersey over my Spring break.

These were honest people, people whom when steeped, brew the essence of the American dream.

I wholly accepted that my training, diet and health would suffer.
I ran 4 miles on an indoor track Monday, aqua ran hard for an hour Friday, and followed that by a 1200m swim, and then 2.5 mile run on the same track. This was my training for Spring Break. For each day, I attained no more than 5 hours of sleep, and ate the most unethical meals and disobeyed every fundamental nutritional guideline that one could ever conceive; Gravy, pizza, soul food, McDonald’s, whatever we could afford and get at, we devoured.

I learned, sacrificed, and devoted myself more than I can aptly characterize here.

I developed a cough, then a sneeze, then a cold.
I then lost a voice that filled with insulated notions.

The voice would presuppose, pre-conceive, and narrow its inordinately small canal, for an abstract anomaly - The breach of a single ripple, driven to shatter the dams of injustice and flood the hollowness that is ignorance.

I know that the several games of basketball, have aggravated an existing calf soreness. I am taping it, and icing it ibuprofen etc. I’m scheduled to run Boston, and I have two 20 milers in already, peaking at about 55 miles per week.

Fact is, I essentially missed a complete week of all training. From all of this, I have been removed from what was a rock in my life.

Moreover, being encapsulated in an arena such as academia, makes one lose compassion for the suffering of his fellows.

This generation, has an obligation to plug the holes of misunderstanding with cement that is education, and aid the failing walls of arrogance with the tools of reason and practice.

This country is the light of the world, and yet even in its brightest cities, lie the darkest truths.


Witness my experience and truth.