Going Old School Numbers

      Hey everyone I did do a video, but then I was inspired to do some writing. This is a story from my past that helped me realized and appreciate the little miracles in life.

      When I was in high school I had this amazing teacher that challenged our class to write to one million. He bet his house, car, and everything he had in the bank; that we could not write to one million in six months. Ho ho what an easy challenge we thought that was (we were all fools). The rules he laid out was we had to write in pen and paper; no computer.  Also we had to write in the form of "1,2,3,4....ect". Well that day we all started to write to one million. Much to our surprise in one week we did not get as far as we first originally thought we would. This was a bigger task then we expected. I think we got around 3000 to 3200. Well after 2 more weeks everyone gave up, because they all started to realize just how big one million was.
    Now here is were I started to think to myself "they are just not motivated and they have no ambition" So basically I was the only left still writing the numbers to one million. I can say this was not a smart choice on my part, because I wrote them during a lot of my classes. I figured if I wrote about 2000 a day I would achieve my goal.
   Okay once I got to 10,000 I thought about giving up, but then my teacher unintentionally challenged me again. He said the last time he asked his class to do this a kid wrote up to 23,000. I was now on a mission to destroy this kids accomplishment. As the numbers began to climb my hand was starting to hurt and cramp up a lot, but I kept writing. I was determined to beat a kid I have never met. Eventually I caught up to the kids numbers, but all I had to do was write a few more numbers and that would be considered as doing "Better" but I had to make sure no one would try and beat me (no mediocrity for me). So I wrote another 10,000 numbers.
    Now it has been about 6 months since I started writing to a million. I decided for sure now to throw in the towel my hand was cramping a lot, and I was not paying attention in class. So I went up to my teacher and asked him if he would make a deal with me. Since none of his other students has ever gotten this high before(which I think was around 33, 360). I offered my binder for $50. He thought about it and said okay; what a bitter sweet moment for me. I spent almost 6 months of my life writing numbers thinking I could reach 1,000,000; I carried a 2" binder around with me wherever I went and now it was gone(the binder by the way was pretty thick with paper writing on both side of the sheet).
   That day I learned that one million is a very large number; and made $50. So now whenever I think about the challenge of doing 50,000 push ups and sit ups I realize that that number is so much easier to achieve then even just writing to 33,360.  No repeating numbers for one ex.  23,333, 23,334, 23,335.... etc. In the end I learned a valuable lesson and if I could go back and do it all over again I would probably still attempt to write to one million. I got to learn something that none of the other people in my class got to learn and made me really appreciate the little miracles in life and I am grateful for that.

   Well that's my story and I hope you all enjoyed it. So remember everyone stay extraordinary.


Sifu R. Langner