Ever had one of those days? You know the ones where time goes by so slowly. Then BAM! It's like a dump truck backs its rear in your face and dumps its load burying you in a rancid load of leeching problems! Just the other day brought a ton of horrible issues. If one problem couldn't be bad enough, my problems spread about like sticky peanut butter over the rest of the day. Life sucks; every single thing that could go wrong is going wrong and I have no control over any of it.

First of all, it began on a Wednesday, crawling along right through until Thursday morning. Ultimately, it was instigated by basketball, one of my passions. It was the final game of my high school career because there was no chance for playoffs, and after all my years of playing basketball, this was the final...