High Heat

Last year, I read the book High Heat, by Carl Deuker. This book is about a kid my age who is a talented pitcher for his high school baseball team. When his dad, owner of a big company, gets busted for fraud ends up committing suicide, Shane (main character) loses all of his old riches, including his house and nice private school. He moves to a poor part of town, to a poor school, where he wonders if he even wants to play baseball again. He ends up playing, but he gets very annoyed at the kid who moved in to his old huge house. This kid also took his spot on his old baseball team, and is now their star player. This makes Shane very jealous. In a game against his old school, he beans this kid right in the head with a fastball, causing a serious injury to the kid and to both his and Shane’s potential scholarships. I have been jealous of many people before and what I do is I usually try to forget about the “cool stuff” or anything that the person has, and just be happy with what I have. It’s not getting what you want, its wanting what you’ve got, and I learned that sometimes the people that you are jealous of, also may be jealous of you. I would just try to be satisfied with what I have because if you are never satisfied, then why even try to be happy in the first place?