a friend gave me his business school application essay to read. here i an talking about it with rip.
Neurp: something i found REALLY interesting: "...my one pride and joy, my hometown dragon boat team, fell apart. I felt as if I had nothing."
Neurp: "my one pride and joy, my hometown dragon boat team, FELL APART"
Neurp: that's... so... weird to hear that. esp since many years later we're still paddling. like, yeah, we struggle with having enough people (tho not this year)
Neurp: but i think we do really well for how many practices we have and stuff like that
Neurp: we all get along, there's much less drama now than there was 10 years ago
Neurp: (prob because we only have a couple officers and none of us are dating each other)
Rip: i think by fell apart he means 'things got hard and I gave up without a fight'
Neurp: I KNOW!
Neurp: i mean... i know part of the reason he quit was cause he found it too hard to work with [officer's name]
Neurp: and a lot of very senior members left, taking with them some of our strongest paddlers
Neurp: but... i really don't think it fell apart
Neurp: if anything, things got better once there few fewer people
Neurp: well, fewer officers anyway
Rip: yea, things are way better now, we got pete haha
Neurp: lol
the whole thing is surprising to me because 1. i didn't know it was his one pride and joy 2. i didn't know he thought we fell apart (since we still paddle every summer under the same team name and under some of the same leadership) and 3. i had no idea he took it so hard.
it's funny too, but a couple years after he left our team, we were talking about it and he made the comment that it was time for the team to die. i remember being pretty offended since i was still running the team at the time. and, sheesh, yes you used to be our head captain, but just cause you leave doesn't mean that others can't take over. i wonder now if he wasn't a little bitter. maybe he honestly thought that without him we would fail. yet, here we are, five years later, and still going reasonably strong.
anyway, i just thought it was interesting how people "rewrite" history.
it's funny too, but a couple years after he left our team, we were talking about it and he made the comment that it was time for the team to die. i remember being pretty offended since i was still running the team at the time. and, sheesh, yes you used to be our head captain, but just cause you leave doesn't mean that others can't take over. i wonder now if he wasn't a little bitter. maybe he honestly thought that without him we would fail. yet, here we are, five years later, and still going reasonably strong.
anyway, i just thought it was interesting how people "rewrite" history.
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It also makes for a more interesting read. If someone's life has been pretty good up until now, but they want to talk about a tragedy, how else would they do it if not embellish?
while it does make sense to embellish in a college app essay, why did he say what he said those years ago?
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