Jogged for 20 minutes

11:59 PM

My entry from a few nights ago was a mess. I have kept journal entries since 2010 when I was 16 years old, and honestly, reading my entry from last night took me back to those earlier days because the entry was so immature and was just all over the place.

In 2010 when I was in 10th grade, I had an English teacher, Mrs. Abdulrazak, who gave us an assignment to start journaling. I'm using her real name here, because there is no entry online anywhere that I can find that she even existed. I forgot her first name, but that was what we called her, Mrs. Abdulrazak, easily my most favorite and most influential English teacher. Her class was extremely influential because that's where I started journaling. Every week we had to show her, I think 10 pages of journal entries or something like that.

I do still have those entries, and I wrote like an immature idiot and a fool. The entries just seem like they were written by a 5 year old. I can probably post some quotes here. Here's a few paragraphs from my very last entry for that class:

"6/16/10

So it has come to this, the last 5 pages for my English class. In my opinion, these were very helpful actually. I could easily type one hundred of these pages in less than ten minutes. Well, double spaced of course. If it had to be single spaced, it would take a little bit longer, but since it is double spaced, it would definitely not take more than ten minutes. These five pages writing every week was really fun for me.

For me personally, it was fun because I always wrote at night just as I was about to go to sleep, and typing made me stay awake again. For some reason, I enjoy typing a lot and it just comes so naturally to me. It feels like something I am doing right. I mean, I would possibly pay to type. Maybe, it is that fun of an activity for me. I might pay to type, if typing was removed from my life and I had to pay money to type something for like five minutes, I think I would pay money to type it. But I am glad it is free, and I am glad I am typing this stuff and only less than 30 seconds have passed.

I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the jukebox baby! I love rock and roll, some come take some time and dance with me! So I don’t know why I typed that in, or maybe I do. Anyway, I am listening to that song right now and that is why I typed that. So I am typing again and I am not sure what I should type about.

Okay. I actually got something to type about. I am going to type about what happened recently and what might happen tomorrow. It’s what I plan will happen tomorrow, but most likely it won’t happen hehe. It’s funny, if I plan something, it might not work out as well as if I improvised. So tomorrow I have three tests and I am going to be screwed. The reason I am screwed for these three tests is because I don’t know any of the material for any of the tests. Oh well, it doesn’t really matter. School doesn’t really matter if you’re not interested in it. I am interested in English class though, it’s a really fun class, and I am going to miss it. Damn, I am going to miss English class."

I can post more, but I think I'll spare the torture. We are extremely susceptible to influence during these ages and I happened to read content about how school was not that important, that all the richest and most successful people at the time (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.) were all college dropouts. It made a very compelling argument for me at the time, that made me not take school as seriously as I did before. I never got anything close to straight A's since, even though I still got all A's and B's only, and nothing ever below a B, and I still took the most advanced classes the school offered.

I guess reading that sort of advice made me not take school as seriously, but I still took it seriously in a way, because my friends did, and they also influence you.

Anyway, back to today, the year 2024. This is 14 years in the future. Just now I actually also read some entries from myself from 2012, and they were worrying. I remember those years and all the frustrations and problems I had. I also attended an Obama rally that year, and that was also the year when I gave up meat (I became a vegetarian in 2012, and then a vegan the next year). I actually have very disturbing entries from back then too. The entries were all about my private life and at times wrote about very disturbing stuff.

So today I basically just worked, and I got some work done. I did do something unique this morning too though, what I did was I went to the gym and got on the stationary bike while I did my brain training exercises. I performed worse than ever. I became outright frustrated with some of the games and ended up not even trying, my PBS went down to 817. I thought it might've been due to being on the stationary bike, so I went home after cycling for 30 minutes and completed the rest of my brain training at home. I performed the same as yesterday after that and my PBS went back to 819.

After work I went with my dad to Wal-Mart, because my dad wanted to buy a zinc supplement, and my mom wanted a new kettle. We were only able to buy the supplement, and couldn't find any kettles at all at Wal-Mart. None. My mom arrived home on my dad and I's drive back home, so we picked her up and went to Giant because she wanted to send some money to family in the Philippines.

After arriving back at home, I rested for a few minutes, and then went to the gym. I did a bunch of dumbbell workouts, and then I got on the treadmill for the first time in months. I wanted to just jog for 5 minutes, maybe 10 minutes at the most. I ended up jogging for 20 minutes, because a woman walked in as I just started jogging. I think I might've been jogging for about a minute when she walked in, and I didn't have my glasses so I couldn't see her face to estimate how old she was, but she was slim.

She got on the elliptical next to me, and I didn't want to just get off after a minute, so I lasted 20 minutes on there. The treadmill actually automatically went to cooldown mode at 20 minutes, I just stayed on the treadmill for a few more minutes for the cooldown, but I didn't complete the whole cooldown since I had to walk another 5 minutes to get back home anyway.

At home I just ate a little bit, watched some South Park, brushed my teeth and flossed, took a shower, and then listened to some oldies. Time really does fly by. It still feels like I really didn't get anything done today, but I do feel extremely refreshed and good after jogging and showering. I feel like I can jog again tomorrow morning, and then again tomorrow evening. We'll see what happens.

Anyway, that was my day today.