Thursday, January 16, 2014

HAPPINESS INC JACKET

It is known in high school that if you are in a sport or activity or a club of some sort that the day of or the day before the big event you dress up. This way the schools knows you are in that activity and you have a game and event soon! This is tradition has been going on for a long time now. All sports do it where sometimes they dress up  or wear something representing there sport or team. Sometimes the football guys wear there jersey and girls wear the practice jersey. The volleyball girls wear t-shirts they made and things of that sort. I am involved in swimming and showchoir and both those activities do it too. We dress up on swim meet days if the meet is an away meet that day so when we show up to there school we look really nice. If it is a home meet we wear either our team t-shirts or jackets that day. For showchoir we usually switch on and off depending on if we have showchoir that day during class because they don't want the girls in giant heels and short skirts trying to practice during the day. If we don't dress up we usually wear our very bright Happiness jackets.
The whole school in all other activities can wear there team stuff but for some reason when we wear our Happiness jackets we get a lot of crap for it. Yes I will admit they are very bright jackets and they do make quite a statement but still that is no reason for people to get mad. All other sports can wear there things but people get mad when we wear ours and its not fair. I personally love the jackets because they are different and stand out. They are bright yellow and they are kind of raincoat material and in green words on the back they say "HAPPINES INC." On the front you can your name or nickname. When you get into Happiness it is a privilege to get your jacket, its like what you look forward too. I assume it would feel like how it would to get like your varsity jersey for the first time. It makes you feel good about yourself like you made it there finally. It is also a very unique thing that we do it to pin buttons on them. You can pin whatever button you want to. Some people fill there jacket with like 100 and others like me just have like 5. Either way I think it looks really cool and I think it is something different from all other teams cause we don't just have plain jackets or t-shirts. Though of course we do have normal sweatshirts and t-shirts to if you want them also. I take to offense when people tweet mean things about them the day we wear them. When we wore them for the first time this year I saw tweets like "watch out the yellow bananas are loose" and "the obnoxious jackets are back everyone" and things along that line. I wouldn't care except for the fact that people only tweet it about showchoir and not when other teams where things together. I almost feel sometimes it is because it is showchoir which a lot of people think is dumb and boring but its really not to us who are in it.
I have heard and seen so many people say mean things about happiness and our jackets. So whether you like them or not you can keep it to yourself because we are just like any other activity at school and we can wear them together. Happiness is more then just a team we are a family too.

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