Focusing Your Lens

As a teenager, I grew up looking for some one to look up too and aspire for. One of the most influential events in my life wasn't my high school graduation but the first time I attended a drift event which was actually the one of the first d1 events hosted at Irwindale Speedway. Driving up to the parking line I was immersed with people that shared the same craze that I did and for the first time in my life I felt part of something that was bigger than me, The Drift Scene, I had never seen a parking packed full of S13s, that are almost twenty years, but treated like they were driven right off the Nissan dealers lot. But that could have kept my tank full but no Tsuchiya had much more things planned for me. As I walked through the ticket line I could see a man with a weird hair style not that many people paid attention to him but some how I had a some kind of intution that this man had a lot to do with the Motorsports industry, I turned to my friend to ask him if he knew who he was and til this day I havent heard my friend sound more excited it was Tarzan Yamada (pro drifter, pro time attack driver, and shop owner), I didn't have a camera with me but I did get a autograph from him, which I cherished til this day, the one thing he said with his heavy accent was "have fun and follow your dreams " and from that day I have made that one statement my motto in life and it has put me in some exciting and interesting situations. So the whole point of this short story was that growing up in America we all need some one or something to focus your lens and for me that day help me manually focus my life to see clearly what is important in life and it was pretty simple find what makes you happy in life and see how close you can get to the clipping point.