Ballad+of+Ben

== Life is a high speed train. It moves at a frenetic pace and only those who can keep up make it. My life moves just as fast, with school, sports, friends, family; sometimes I feel like I'm missing life. Ferris Bueller had a great take on this life of ours, "Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop to look around every once in a while, you might miss it." Sometimes in life, you just have to slow things down. You have to take things less seriously and enjoy what you are doing or else the high speed train will zoom right pass you. We need to care for the ones we love, not overlook them with our own goals. We need to say to ourselves, "Why am I doing something I dislike," or "Why am I not doing something I love." LIfe moves too fast to sit around and watch. My philosophy is to take control and live your life. ==

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