I’m not the most coordinated
person in the world but I can run pretty fast. Once in high school I actually
scored three touchdowns during gym class.
I was surprised and very excited, but I figured that once I had the ball
the rest was easy and I simply outran the other players. I did enjoy the sensation of imagining the
other players standing still as I worked my way to the other end focussing on
the end point more than the players.
However, months later
while I was playing a defensive position I overheard the teacher and classmates
talking about giving me a touchdown. I
was deflated because to me, points scored that are unearned provide no
satisfaction whatsoever. I realized then
while it’s entirely possible I scored those three touchdowns fairly because of
my speed, it was also likely that I was fed one, two, or all three of
them. So if I did score those touchdowns
they drained all satisfaction from them because I’ll never know the truth. In this case though I was able to show my
pride: instead of taking the free but unearned win, I simply played defense to
the best of my ability, frustrating attempts to feed me the ball, until they
finally gave up trying to feed me a fake win.
Some prefer a fun lie
to a not so fun truth. Me, I refer the truth every time, because when a truth
is pleasant, the good stuff is so much sweeter because you know it’s real.
2 comments:
Damn straight. If its just handed to you, what's the point? Did you ask them about it? What part of you scoring wasn't valid anyway?
I didn't ask them about it. My coordination's not great now but was even worse them so I think they thought there were doing me some sort of favour by letting me have a touchdown they didn't think I'd otherwise get. I didn't know how to raise the topic at the time so didn't. I wish I had asked about the previous days' touchdowns though so I could have found out if they were fed to me or not.
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