As the modern saying goes...

When life throws you curve balls, try not to strike out.

Just make enough contact to stay in the game. Foul it out, get a base hit, hit a home run.
The summer is quickly coming to an end and school is quickly coming into view.

// From waterboarding, to a nuclear middle east we are in historic times. How am I to be remembered today when such colossal events are happening. Makes me wonder so much about where I fit in.

Contact, stay in the game. You may strike out, but that one time you will connect. Just be patient with yourself. Sure bad days come and go, but so do good days. Sometimes to move forward you really do need to take a couple steps back.