Comments on: Lisle, Illinois. 4.4.07 Sometimes you can’t make it on your own http://johnmorello.com/wordpress/2007/05/04/sometimes-you-cant-make-it-on-your-own/ Broadcasting live from the scenic pioneer valley in beautiful Massachusetts. Sending the music and vibes thru the dirtbag recovery network. This is “The Dirt” as walked on and ingested by yours truly John Morello. Its free form. Its live. Its new. Its old. It surrounds us like the force. It binds us like an evil cheese. Its music. Its words. So lets go. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:55:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jack http://johnmorello.com/wordpress/2007/05/04/sometimes-you-cant-make-it-on-your-own/#comment-1601 Jack Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:31:03 +0000 http://johnmorello.com/wordpress/2007/05/04/sometimes-you-cant-make-it-on-your-own/#comment-1601 I felt like that today.. at gymnastics watching my special needs daughter working her heart out for the love of it... nothing more... just her love - and her simple desire to be like everyone else...KNOWING she is different...and that is where it hurts me the most... and even in her monumental effort - physically she will not be as advanced at most 7 year olds... so what? The young couple next to me marvelled at their five year old... making comments about how she needed to be pushed to EXCELL.... how her technique needed to be honed, how she needed conditioning to strengthen her and allow her to be BETTE... PUSHED!!! I thought..she is a baby... you f@#$ing selfish ignorant a$%(oles... You morons.. WAKE UP! Your lives are perfect... don't you know it.... you have an audi, you have a big home, you have a PERFECT life, good job are god looking and educated (there is a difference between educated and wise) and you are PUSHING your CHILD ...for what...for her? FOR HER???? Crap.. sometimes I think it is all crap... I felt like killing and a few years ago I might had snapped, but I breathed a deep breath and felt sorry for them... then I watched the resentment at it's peak within me - felt it- it;s HEAT- it's power (if I gave into it) ...and I let it go away... and I submereged myself in the JOY that my "gymnastic daughter" got from the simplicity of "doing life" just for the love of it... I walked away tonight more proud of my daughter for TRYING prouder than I could have ever imagined... prouder than I feel those other poor young parents felt of their perfect future Olimpian girl.. ....poor kid.... I felt like that today.. at gymnastics watching my special needs daughter working her heart out for the love of it… nothing more… just her love - and her simple desire to be like everyone else…KNOWING she is different…and that is where it hurts me the most… and even in her monumental effort - physically she will not be as advanced at most 7 year olds… so what?
The young couple next to me marvelled at their five year old… making comments about how she needed to be pushed to EXCELL…. how her technique needed to be honed, how she needed conditioning to strengthen her and allow her to be BETTE… PUSHED!!! I thought..she is a baby… you f@#$ing selfish ignorant a$%(oles… You morons.. WAKE UP! Your lives are perfect… don’t you know it…. you have an audi, you have a big home, you have a PERFECT life, good job are god looking and educated (there is a difference between educated and wise) and you are PUSHING your CHILD …for what…for her? FOR HER????
Crap.. sometimes I think it is all crap… I felt like killing and a few years ago I might had snapped, but I breathed a deep breath and felt sorry for them… then I watched the resentment at it’s peak within me - felt it- it;s HEAT- it’s power (if I gave into it) …and I let it go away… and I submereged myself in the JOY that my “gymnastic daughter” got from the simplicity of “doing life” just for the love of it… I walked away tonight more proud of my daughter for TRYING prouder than I could have ever imagined… prouder than I feel those other poor young parents felt of their perfect future Olimpian girl..
….poor kid….

]]> By: Catie http://johnmorello.com/wordpress/2007/05/04/sometimes-you-cant-make-it-on-your-own/#comment-836 Catie Fri, 04 May 2007 17:33:22 +0000 http://johnmorello.com/wordpress/2007/05/04/sometimes-you-cant-make-it-on-your-own/#comment-836 I just wanted to say thank you for coming to my school Thursday to speak to us about drugs and drinking and the horrible effects they have on people. Not only was the show funny, it showed us the truth. The truth about how smoking weed can make someone as smart as Jason turn into a young adult with the mind of a 4 yr old. How drinking, even casually like Melissa did, can lead to such horrible things like date rape, and the truth that just one person can change other peoples' lives. Sure, it's a big cliche, but it does happen. It can be 2 hours like your show, or 10 seconds like the skit with the teenagers and the old man. Your show was amazing and I really hope you can come to my school again. PS- i read your blog about your adventure at the airport. I love moments like that and how everything happens for a reason. I'm willing to bet that he'll never forget that guy that he helped clean up his mess. It'd be a good ad for Bounty. lol I just wanted to say thank you for coming to my school Thursday to speak to us about drugs and drinking and the horrible effects they have on people. Not only was the show funny, it showed us the truth. The truth about how smoking weed can make someone as smart as Jason turn into a young adult with the mind of a 4 yr old. How drinking, even casually like Melissa did, can lead to such horrible things like date rape, and the truth that just one person can change other peoples’ lives. Sure, it’s a big cliche, but it does happen. It can be 2 hours like your show, or 10 seconds like the skit with the teenagers and the old man. Your show was amazing and I really hope you can come to my school again.

PS- i read your blog about your adventure at the airport. I love moments like that and how everything happens for a reason. I’m willing to bet that he’ll never forget that guy that he helped clean up his mess. It’d be a good ad for Bounty. lol

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