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...Void. It’s the emptiness inside of you that results from the absence of something that consumed three hours a day, six days a week, for up to 40 weeks a year over four years and that’s not even including athletics before high school. As far as I can tell, if sports were a major component of your life before you came to Harvard, The Void is about as inevitable as a Saturday morning hangover after a Friday organic chemistry exam...
...tried a lot of things in my efforts to fill The Void. I care about beirut enough to know my career win-loss record (it’s good). I’ve simulated so many franchise seasons in my EA Sports games that even Rickey Henderson finally retired. I own such a multitude of sports jerseys that I ended up with the nickname “Jersey Jon.” Of course, I maintain that the last laugh will be mine when I finally meet a cute girl who swoons at the sight of my authentic Paul Pierce...
...tempting as it might be, the worst thing that you can do is to submit to The Void. If sports still matter to you, then you need to find a way to keep them in your life. Go out and toss a baseball around. Join an intramural team and bring home that Straus Cup. Or, throw on your old high school basketball jersey every few weeks and head down to the MAC for a spirited—if occasionally ugly—game...
...game of football in the snow. Cheer on the Harvard varsity athletes as they take on the rest of the Ivy League. Try your hand at a new sport. Whatever you do, make sure that you keep athletics in your life in any way that you can. Fill The Void...
TOUCHING THE VOID...