The Saddest Thing In Life Is...

...Wasted Talent.

After some serious,"no more fooling around" time, I've made up my mind on what I'm sticking to career wise. It seems I tend to beat around the bush when it comes to taking school seriously. I've changed my major more times than anyone I know and have never really cared much for it. Nights ago, while at home all alone and bored, I watched my favorite movie, Robert De Niro's, A Bronx Tale. My favorite quote of all time is one that made me realize, I gotta do this.

"THE SADDEST THING IN LIFE IS WASTED TALENT"

I've always liked this part of the movie and these words have truly moved and inspired me to become a Sports Broadcaster.

I did the whole T.V. thing in high school and excelled at it. My only obstacle during all the years was not the lack of talent but lack of motivation. All time motivator Joe Underwood, and non-stop Shadow, warned me about slacking plenty of times. Now, I'm thirsting for any and every intern opportunity or freelance project available.

I remember the first assignment for T.V., my first year at Miami Senior High school. Underwood took the class down to the East Patio, showed us a camera, stood the victim in front of the cam and asked him to read the script. I remember panic when he asked me my name and then proceeded me to stand in front of the camera and behind the prestigious fountain in the patio. I read the script, which must have been one of those T.V 1 scripts. The one's that have "cheesy" and "lame" written all over it and never seem to be off topics like proper uniform attire, tardies and absences . After wrap, we all headed back to the classroom and while going up the staircase Undi and I had our first conversation. He told me the camera loved me but we both knew I was extremely shy.

It's funny, one day, during the many years spent in his classes, Undi told me one day I'd bump back to this. I can remember responding "The camera doesn't like me and I don't like it either." Silly enough, he was right.
Senior year, Cardona told me she knew I would end up in the media services, either Journalism or Broadcasting. Now, even more silly, I hope she was right.