BOOM! POW! SMASH!

i'm a man of many shades and features. one feature that i'm realizing again about myself is that i'm a bit of a bruiser. yes, me. the somewhat reserved, "quiet," (i laugh every time someone thinks i'm quiet), nice guy. i like to break things. i like to hit things. A LOT.

if i could, i would probably respond to most situations and problems like this:

!!!!!HULK SMASH!!!!!

why sit and talk about it? JUST HIT IT! blow it up, knock it out, hit it 'til it stops moving!

i love the sound that is created when something is struck just right. and i love to see the object that was struck (whether it's a ball, a wall, or a person) hurtling back from the impact.

i think i was always like this. when i was a toddler, my mom said that i used to drop items on different surfaces to see what sound they would make. i liked to run around with shoes that made noise. i preferred to bang on pots over playing with toys. my dad said that i was pretty good at hitting a ball when i was young, too. i guess i had really good hand eye coordination.

i guess that's why my favorite sports are tennis and tae kwon do. they are individual sports (i love the challenge of figuring it out myself) and you have to hit things with an appropriate balance of power and precision. so, why no football you ask? first off, my dad wasn't crazy about me playing. i was a little small for my age and i honestly didn't really begin to fill out until college, so this sudden "big manness" is a little recent. but also, i can't blast a hole through your chest in football. i can tackle and run into folks. boo. that's not better than kicking someone to me.

but there's something about flying and spinning through the air, and then kicking someone or something across the room that just makes my day a great one! or the thrill of throwing a little greenish-yellow ball in the air and hitting it at 100mph toward another person. it's just a bunch of fun to me!

but don't worry. i'm really harmless. :-)