I was standing on stage about to perform a poem and when I stepped up to the microphone, I realized that I had no idea how bright the spotlight was. That felt like my first time. I couldn’t see anything, just the brightness of the spotlight and darkness everywhere else. I started the poem. As …
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I started playing volleyball in middle school and I thought it was fun and that I was better than average at it. I tried out for my school volleyball team all 4 years of high school. Each year I thought I should have made the team, and each year I was cut during tryouts and …
I vividly remember the day I met my good friend, Kama. I was working as a bartender at an upscale Hawaiian hotel bar and he walks in barefoot and flashes me a very sincere ear-to-ear smile. It was so refreshing to meet a stranger who was not reserved with his smiles. It was pure aloha. …
I went on a long road trip with my sister in Australia and we stopped at a rest stop to rest. I had been doing all of the driving since she didn’t know how to drive a stick shift car and wasn’t used to driving on the left side of the road. I didn’t think …
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One of the moments that made my life, and is still making my life, is the moment I proposed marriage to the woman of my dreams. Beautiful, funny, smart, and kind, I still don’t know how I got so lucky to meet her while she was single and somehow convince her to marry me. I …
I don’t remember the first wave I ever surfed but the feeling of surfing is unforgettable. To me, they all feel like my first. The sensation you feel when you catch a wave and then the dropping and turning, and being pushed along by a wave, it’s all just magical. Some of the best moments …
One of the most magically beautiful moments of my life came while I was living on Molokai, a lesser known Hawaiian island that has very little light pollution due to its low population. You can see all the stars and the moon is very bright there. I was training for the Honolulu Marathon, which starts …
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One night I was stargazing with some friends in the woods and we saw an incredible shooting star. It went from one end of the sky to the other. You could have counted one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, four Mississippi, and maybe a half a Mississippi more. I was about 17 years old then …
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The only thing on my mind when someone passes me the soccer ball is scoring a goal. I love playing soccer and I’ve played my whole life. I had played from age 4 to 28 and never had any injuries. No sprained ankles, no pulled hamstrings, nothing. I didn’t think I was invincible but I …
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I will never forget flying through the air in Nicaragua at 45 miles per hour wearing a T-shirt and board shorts and a helmet that was so loose it was being blown back by the wind. It ended as well as it could have. I hit an unannounced speed bump after hitting the brakes and …
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