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As we made eye contact, my heart sank. I knew what was coming.
"Look at me boy! Your performance was barely worth your exhaustion!"
"You SUCKED!! What were you thinking out there?"
I mumble, "But I scored the game winner."
His reply is "What about that pass? What about those uncontested shots you missed? Why do you even bother?"
I start to absorb his words as truth.
I look at him with a stiff upper lip and pray that the tears in my eyes will be covered by the resolve in my voice. My only words are "Message received."
He says to me "Get your sorry ass out of here and go home and practice! Don't bring that weak crap in here again!"
I drop my gaze from his and slowly pick up my bag from the floor.
As I sigh deeply and feel a tap on my shoulder. From behind me I hear "Excuse me, but I am in a hurry and was wondering if are you almost finished with that mirror."
Silently I turn and walk out of the locker room.
"Look at me boy! Your performance was barely worth your exhaustion!"
"You SUCKED!! What were you thinking out there?"
I mumble, "But I scored the game winner."
His reply is "What about that pass? What about those uncontested shots you missed? Why do you even bother?"
I start to absorb his words as truth.
I look at him with a stiff upper lip and pray that the tears in my eyes will be covered by the resolve in my voice. My only words are "Message received."
He says to me "Get your sorry ass out of here and go home and practice! Don't bring that weak crap in here again!"
I drop my gaze from his and slowly pick up my bag from the floor.
As I sigh deeply and feel a tap on my shoulder. From behind me I hear "Excuse me, but I am in a hurry and was wondering if are you almost finished with that mirror."
Silently I turn and walk out of the locker room.
posted by KLW @ 11:52 AM
1 Comments:
At 3:14 PM ,
Anonymous said...
I like to use the "fun house" mirror analogy when someone else's reflection of us is a lie. I hate those those d-mn distorted mirrors, you know?! "Thank you God for God," as Ethan says. Jesus Christ is a true and crystal clear mirror. And amazingly he doesn't stop there. He puts a few "Godly-mirror-people" in our lives who love us in a mature and healthy way and serve as excellent mirrors, reflecting us as God sees us. It sucks so much when kids don't have healthy or mature adults to nurture them in a way that enables them to know their true value. Worse, it sucks that the bull crap sticks around a l-o-o-o-o-ong time. I've dumped and smashed and avoided and laid down a lot of "fun house" mirrors in the past 20 years. Hey, God, how do I look?
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