Choices

Running a student section can be a full time job, and in order to finance that section it can sometimes cost the wages of a full time job.

What do you do when you have to work and there is a game? For me, the answer is very very easy. I have a limited opportunity to be a student, to enjoy games, to stand next to my friends and cheer on my brothers. You only get 4 years of your life to do that. You’re going to work for the rest of your life. A job can wait and you can, need be, find another job.

If you miss the once in a lifetime opportunity you could regret it for the rest of your life. I know that money can be tight, and everyone is worried about paying for college. Everyone has a different situation but life is about experiences, not money or personal objects.

I am at my happiest in that student section. I’d rather be screaming my lungs out at some game than have money. You see, the thing about money is, they print more of it every single day, and the world won’t run out of it. But time, and people, are scarce resources. All the money in the world can’t buy your way back into school. It can’t bring back all the people you’ve grown up with.

I could be wrong. Maybe keeping a good job and making money is the proper thing to do. In the end, none of this really matters. Even if your team wins the state championship you are still going to have to live your life. Graduation will come and everyone will separate. Nothing you do can make that big of a difference.

But deep down. I don’t give a damn, I love my school and anyone who tells me that I should have different priorities can suck it. I will do what makes me happy.

Living poor but happy. I spend all my money to make the student section amazing as possible. I know it has consequences but I really don’t care. I feel like the richest man in the world.

Do what makes you happy and you’ll never be poor in your life. Take my advice, cheering your team on will make you happy. That’s the get rich quick scheme. Go to the game and cheer your heart out. Your job can wait. Life can wait.

Ive got one year left, then life will start. But for now im just going to pretend that the only thing I need is the Cougar Nation.