Choose to Play
“๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ!
“๐๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ก…๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ง!? – ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐!”
Why me? Perhaps the better question is why not me?
All too frequently as a teenager – that’s where I found myself in the High School Basketball team. I just wanted to play in the game.
I wanted a jersey, I didn’t want to sit on the sidelines – I simply wanted to play!
In my youthfulness and eagerness to play, long hours of practice and effort eventually paid off, and I became a regular starter – playing constantly.
I learned too, that sometimes when you are not playing well, the coach can take you out of the game.
Similarly in life, I want to be where the action is.
Sitting on the sidelines is just not for me.
At home, at work, in the community I need to be involved, I need to play, to make a difference.
As Oliver Wendell Holmes said “It is required of a man that he share the action and the passion of his time at the peril of being judged not to have lived.”
Whatever it is that is most important in your life…
– choose to be engaged
– choose to participate
– choose to practice and expend the effort
– choose to get involved
– choose to make a difference
Decide now to get up off the bench, move from the sidelines and into the field of action – ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐!
What will you choose to do today?
