Football, the Great Metaphor - part I

Football has put me in and gotten me through so many random, unexpected, expected, planned, unplanned, exhilarating, depressing, awkward...you name it, situations since i was a child learning the game, growing up playing on the field up the street with only boys. It has been the real constant in my life, has taught me much, took me to high achievements, and brought me to my closest friends, and is now forming the path i walk on. I have often used football as analogy for life in general and have yet to find a situation that couldn't in some way be related to a game. I choose to share some of my own game clips here. Make of them what you may; as with anything else, we form unique interpretations based on our own experiences.

I check in to the ball...the pass comes...its heavy...defender coming in on my back. I step over it and let it run, spinning off my man. As I turn to get sight of the ball again, there is a second defender approaching. Damn it was so heavy, its running away fast...can I get there before she does? Slight hesitation maybe only in my mind... because I'm going full out for it now...I know I have the speed. I get to it one step early..poke it to one side, run around the other side of her. Third defender right behind, no choice but to use the same move...just to try and get into some space...but now i'm getting pushed away from goal... Ok so look up finally and two more defenders in the box, one shaping to close me, the other trying to stay with my strike partner. I take a push to goal...angle is tight...the adrenalin really pumping now, we'r down 1-0... make a decision! Maybe it was a matter of confidence, maybe just my style... I'v never been much of a goalscorer ...to this day i always look to put in the service.... But here's my forward bearing down on the center of the goal, great finisher... so I slide it across the box...only to have her completely plowed over, cleared out, cleaned up, by the defender... no penalty...Only then was I aware of the silence as I was taking on defenders... and then there was nothing... nothing but disbelief ... dejection...my efforts had yielded nothing but injury to my teammate, my friend... and we were left there, she bent over in pain on the verge of tears and i trying to comfort her as the ball was cleared in the opposite direction...

My Carnival Weekend

Aright so ah hope everybody had a nice time in all de fetes, on de road, pan, etc.. fuh spite i eh read no papers to see if anybody dead or anyting so... but yuh kno news does reach back. One piece ah good news was a teacher and now good friend design monday mas for Silver Stars, pan winners, and had a ball wit it. She always up to try someting new =)

But i only studying while ppl palancin, i here bundle up half de time, and shovellin snow de odder half. An to make it worse, when ah tryin to see a lil ting on de internet, it stickin stickin. ONLY TO FINE OUT was fleckin C with a setta assness an dey "broadcast rights"!! When is C who should haul dey ass when dey make ppl pay an den tief ppl money cuz de stream wasn even wukkin. Dey ha to scramble to say well ahmm yuh could get a refund or watch a nex event. An wha happen when dat stick too? crapaud smoke yuh pipe.

So ah tryin to make a lil CD, if ah could fine enough songs ah like dat sound like soca and not dancehall...or dat not "on ah riddim". Pressha. It jes hit meh dat ppl on de beach all now... while i here wit meh space heater... but ah have one up: ah hear my CT crix cheaper dan Trinidad crix ... an lemmeh tell yuh, de Vital Supplies does come een REAL good in dis winter! ;-)

Til nex time...