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Let's Make A Comeback
Ever since the beginning of the season, our biggest competition has been gunning for us. Maybe it's just me, but I believe after our first win, we felt entitled to win everything, and we haven't been making the most of every moment that we have had together.
We have three weeks left in the season and two judged performances of the field show left. Guys, that's no time. Before you know it, we will be at the Arcadia awards ceremony freezing our butts off, crossing our fingers, and waiting to hear the words "AND GRAND CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES GOES TO...... MT. CARMEL!" Imagine the crowd erupting, and everyone crying after beating our competition we've lost to for the last 10 years. This is OUR year. We have one of the best shows around. We know it, and we need to perform it as well as possible.
Would you rather look back on this season and say, "We almost had them, if only we would've worked harder, and been focused for that extra couple of hours"? Or would you rather say, "We performed the heck out of that show, and we could not have done any better"? What I'm trying to say is what Mr. Mac has been saying all along. Being mediocre takes the SAME amount of time as being awesome! So, why not be just be awesome? Don't do it for your section leaders, Mr. Mac, your parents, or anyone else for that matter. Do it for yourself. Just because we lost one tournament doesn't mean we can't make a comeback at our final two competitions. Remember that losing only one tournament doesn't make us a bad band! We lost the field tournament by 4 points out of one thousand! That is so close! So, seriously, winning is not out of our grasp. All we have to do is put in 3 more solid weeks of rehearsal, and on that bus back from Arcadia, no matter what the outcome may be, we will feel the same sense of accomplishment.
When I added up how much time we have left, which is just around 24 more hours of rehearsal, it made me look back on all the time I spent in marching band. If you didn't already know, I was taken out of the field show as a freshman because I didn't understand how much band meant to everyone. I messed around, and honestly, I completely wasted the valuable time I could've embraced that season. To this day, I regret it. Being removed from the field show made me rethink if I really enjoyed band, and why I was in it. I figured that if I really loved band, I would work hard to make myself and the band better as a whole. That being said, these last couple of years have tested my hope of winning any kind of a tournament, and I know that probably a lot of us lost hope. Even I felt a little hopeless at times, but I still tried to make the most of every opportunity.
This year, we've been given a great show to perform, and it's our opportunity to turn things around. This year we can do it. We just have to get the work done. It might be hard, but trust me; it will definitely be worth it. Just make the most of every moment, so when you look back, you will be proud of everyone and all the work we put in. Let's arrive at Mira Mesa next week and show the judges who's boss.
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November 3, 2011, 8:29 pm - Allen Golditch
I agree from what Aaron said. We do our best and I am happy so far that we have been winning during Westview, RB, and Poway. I first had no idea how to read off the dots, but it got easier. We'll do our best at Mira Mesa and Arcadia if we try our hard work. As always for our band, MC RULES!