The first thing I learned, wait, cross that. The first thing
I thought about sport was that it was about winning.
I couldn’t be more wrong. Nor am I alone.
I used to be a little crazy about my teams winning their
games. Whether they won or lost would determine my mood for the rest of the
week. If my team won, you couldn’t find a happier kid just buzzing with energy
and bursting peoples’ eardrums with my loudness. But if heaven forbid, my teams
lost, take cover. Although I still remained loud, I would be moody with
feelings of agitation, annoyance and frustration as if I had lost the game
myself.
Believe me, it was a lesson learned. I found out how hard it
is to play sport, or trying to achieve anything else in life.
I realised
it life trying to teach me one of the most important things in
life:
IT’S ABOUT THE JOURNEY, NOT THE DESTINATION.
I am happy to say that I am no longer so emotionally
invested in my sports teams and whether they win or lose. I have learnt to
appreciate the attempt and the effort. And this transcends into life.
We aren’t perfect and sometimes things happen but it’s about
what you have learnt on the way that makes us grow as people. It’s about
growing from strength to strength.
In life, it’s not about getting the car, or the job, or the
house-it’s about sharing the journey with the people that care about you- even
if it is in their own crazy, twisted, screwed up ways.
