Once again, I’ve been humbled. I don’t mean in the intellectual sort of way, as most of us students are used to (thank you, Dr. Wilson). I mean in athletics, in the swimming pool at my gym.
Last week I woke up early to go swim some laps, and had just finished with my 500 yard warm-up when a pale, middle-aged, heavyset gentleman was looking for a swim lane to join. Unfortunately for him all the swim lanes were full, and no one seemed to want him to join.
I felt bad for the lane orphan — he had his white swim cap on, a large build covered in thick body hair, and a big round belly reminiscent of a pregnant woman in her second trimester. His small black Speedo was a stark contrast to his pasty abdomen. He looked like the kid in gym class who had been picked last, and the team who was left with him saw him as more of a burden than a contributor.
Feeling altruistic, perhaps just a smidge haughty, I invited him to share my lane. He gladly accepted, and pluckily plopped into my part of the pool as I began my main set of laps: fifteen 50-yard lengths on a one minute time interval, which for me is an intense fifteen minutes.
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Right now, I live across the street from a park with a school right next to it. Rain or shine, boy or girl, socialite or outcast, those kids go completely nuts whenever they’re let loose in the big grassy field with the two adjoining asphalt basketball courts and the intersecting row of oak trees in between. It’s a complete circus during recess and is absolutely “the greatest show on earth” whenever I need a break from studying. 
In light of the legislation being debated on Capitol Hill, I am of the belief that healthcare reform is like a marathon, and too many Americans are making it out to be a 1600 meter dash.
Once upon a time, there was a woman who had been discharged from the ER. She was in the waiting room, shrieking and yelling hysterically on her phone at her significant other. She was so loud security had bolted to the scene immediately to monitor the cacophony that had been resonating all the way down to Radiology.
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