On Life

Sometimes your life can take a brief pause, and if you just so happen to be looking, you can notice this happening and you can get a brief glimpse at how surreal life can really be. I was practicing softball today with a few members from my team. We were on a high school field that shared a fence with the field that Whitman's baseball team uses. They were playing a game while we were practicing and I could hear the outfielders yelling commands at each other. As I stood there waiting to field a ball, I saw a dirty white baseball sail cleanly over the fence and roll onto the field I was practicing on. I ignored it until I saw a player from Whitman's team emerge from some trees and start looking around in the grass. We pointed out the baseball to him and he quickly fetched it. "Who's pitching?" someone asked. "Maldy." he said. For those of you that don't know, Maldy is a close friend of mine and pitcher on the baseball team. As the other player trudged back to his side of the fence, I had one of those moments in my life and I connected with how Maldy must have felt after that pitch sailed over. How it must have destroyed his confidence and his spirit. I also thought how only 200 yards away, I could see that same ball sailing over that same fence and glance away not giving it a second thought.

That is how life is my friends.

Now, go live it.