Just Do It
Just Do It When I hear the phrase, “Just Do It,” I think of the famous Nike slogan. I have seen countless commercials with that catch phrase and its meaning was never fully registered and appreciated. It floated into my head and quickly escaped, just as boring paragraphs of an old history book seem to float in and quickly escape without being absorbed. Ideas and images were not conjured up in my head by this simple powerful phrase; It had no effect. With the end of high school and the beginning of summer my awareness of “Just Do It” would be transformed. This past summer, my friend, Lina Langham and I went on an exotic vacation to southern Mexico. We traveled all over and experienced fascinating adventures. We swam in the beautiful waterfalls of Agua Azul in Chiapas and entered dangerous Zapatista territory. There was a day when we were left in the scorching sun for five hours straight, immediately spent two more hours in thunderous cascading rain and had no food or water all while sitting in the back of an old small truck that took the curviest and bumpiest roads it could possibly find. We climbed and discovered ancient ruins and met unforgettable and fascinating people. We went para . . .
A second later I was surrounded by dark cold water and I could see the light at the surface. We wiggled ourselves through a tight dark damp vertical opening in the ground. Should we do it? I wanted to; everything in me wanted jump. The first ride was about ten to fifteen minutes long. I had always preached about seizing the moment and living life to the fullest and I could not jump. After sitting there and refusing to jump for fifteen minutes, my friend took the initiative and jumped. Go ahead and jump but I’m not going to do it and that’s that,” I clearly stated. We could not imagine it could get any better in one day. My friends kept egging me on and I would not budge. I forgot who I was and who I would be if I jumped or didn’t.
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