A friend told me that it's expected that people get hooked on makeover shows, because we grew up with premises like "from zero to hero," "ugly duckling turned into a swan," and the likes.
That means when we get to the Olympics, we're ready for it, because we grew up under pressure: pressure from the press, pressure from your school, pressure from the people in the street, pressure from the guy you're trying to beat.
And he was the only person I wanted to hear that from, because we grew up listening to the same stuff and wanting to achieve the same things: to be as good as the bands we were listening to.
Everyone is jealous of the shit we get make, because we grew up learning bomb combinations from our mums.
We have to grow from this because we cannot stay stuck on needing more books for gay black boys and more books written by authors of colour for another 100 years".
They do so, against all the odds, because they grow from one culture and one outlook on life.
Because trees grow from the tips of their branches, not from their base, the carving would have been done at that height, not at eye level.
2. Because individuals grow from the inside out, so do groups.
If there's a clog in the line, it's usually because roots grow from a private sewage pipe into the line in the middle of the street.
I make my living off the sun, but these days I pray for rain, and not just because things grow from it and fire is retarded by it, but also because in Mammoth, winter rain is called snow.
