05/11/2022
sometimes it isn’t the outcome or the result that defines us… sometimes what happens along the way matters a whole lot more.
you’re down at half time; the game is over,
the season is over,
your high school career is over.
You could start questioning everything, the very thing(s) that got you to the position you’re in today. You start to look for a solution to the problem, change this, change that.
You could give up, quit, go home.
Or…
you hold still and steady… you accept that the outcome is no longer something you can control, but your response to your circumstances is, and always is, completely under your control.
You are the response!
You dig deep, deeper than you thought you could imagine, because you’ve never been this close to it being over before.
You outwork, outcompete, and outplay your opponent, but that’s not enough. You’re still down.
You do everything you can, in the circumstances you find yourself in and you can have no regrets.
You finish the game a better person that the one who started it. But not because you won the game, but because of what the game brought out in you. And that’s the power of sports! This is why we play. To learn! To grow!
We may have lost a soccer game today.
We weren’t at our best in key moments of the game and we were held accountable for that. It’s the playoffs, anyone can win, you better be at your best or it could cost you your season!
But, unless you’re the last man standing, you’ll always lose the last game of your season.
It’s not the outcome that matters most, it’s what you did along the way.
The life lessons that you learned from playing a high school sport, using a platform to worship the one you gave you legs and lungs, surrounded by people who build you up and want you to succeed. That matters most.
This team finished stronger than they started.
This team scored the last goal.
sometimes it isn’t the outcome or the result that defines us… sometimes what happens along the way matters a whole lot more.
