1,000 Points and Lessons Learned

I'm walking my way over to Cooperstown's annual holiday tournament as I wrote this. If I'm being totally honest I couldn't care less about the team's result. Of course I want them to do well, but I got to the games because I'm a Team Lambert fan. As one of my best friends, Charlie, gets closer and closer to 1,000 points, I'm trying my hardest to not miss any home games. He's roughly ninety points away and it's close enough to call it a 1,000 point watch. The same way they put the counters on Lebron passing Kareem. He was hundreds of points off and they gave him a counter, trying to predict which game it'd be. If Lebron gets one, I'm giving Charlie one! Although I'm not the biggest basketball fan, I learned a lot about the game by playing on the team last year. It definitely makes watching games seem so much more impressive. You know those memes that call for an average person to compete in the olympics to show how good the athletes actually are? My basketball career was kind of like that. Except it was like putting a baby kitten in a cage of wild tigers. It was a dangerous scenario for someone as athletically pathetic as me. My favorite thing I learned from playing on the basketball team was from the coach, Judge Lambert. I learned a lot from Judge Lambert, but he taught me an important lesson I don't think he probably thought twice about. I mean I sucked at basketball . I was and am awful. Before he put me into the few games I got to play in, the ones where our team was way up or way down, he would tell me that it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how bad I am because we are either going to win by twenty already or lose by twenty. He told me not to be embarrassed and to go out there and have fun. He's putting me in because the game was already decided. Telling me not to care what others thought about my skills is still a lesson I try to utilize every day. I try my best not to care what people think and I try to go out and do my best I can do. It sounds cheesy but it's so important to listen too. Happy Wednesday!