“Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records.”- William Ward
Heartbreaking is a word often associated with soccer matches that come down to shoot-outs after long extended play has not been able to decipher a winner. Five players against the goalie; whoever scores more goals wins. It is a terrible win, hardly reflective of the fact that it is merely luck that decides the winner. The moment of the kick after the whistle blows is seconds long, but similar to car crashes where time slows to a halt the “in” breath lasts a while. Reaction time between players is clocked in milliseconds, like how Olympic swimmers win races; time as long as a fingernail.
I have seen my share of shoot-outs, but never once have I seen a call against the goalie on a stop. Recently, when our goalie did the impossible and made the stop, the referee made a bad call. It was a legal call, although I had never heard of it- the ref reversed the amazing save and gave the kicker another shot. Slicing time so thin, no one in the audience even knew what was happening or why. Then, in another moment, the match was gone. The goalie, my friend, lay with his face in the turf.
Tags: acceptance, forgiveness, self awareness, self knowledge, self love, Trust
