Zac Efron left his acting career to play basketball. It was the only thing on the news, everyone was talking about it. Every Twitter post was "GETCHA HEAD IN THE GAME". Tumblr was even worse. Every human being seemed to find it overwhelmingly hilarious. No one took it seriously.
Ever since I was a child people said my family was cursed. It never seemed to worry my father. He said if we were the toughest, the strongest, the most successful, the absolute best, nothing could ever hurt us. I believed him. We all did.