trying new things

August 10, 2004

I’ve played on a community softball team all summer. In a few hours we’ll be playing our last game of the season. Our team was new to the league this year, started by a friend of mine that wanted to get out, get active and have fun.

You may have noticed “win” was not on our list of objectives. This is a good thing because if winning was our goal, we would be sorely disappointed right about now. Let’s just say a good game for us was losing 14 to 1–we actually scored a run!

Despite how it sounds, this is not something I’m bitter about. The bottom line is, we’ve have a great time, we’ve improved phenomenally (you should have seen where we began!) and we’ve all enjoyed the camaraderie.

The teams we’ve played against are hard-core. These are women who play up to four times a week throughout the summer on various teams in various leagues in our area. Some even practice year-round (in a warehouse) despite our upstate New York snow and cold.

As for our team, we are a conglomeration of all ages and levels of experience. Several of our players have never played softball before and some of them have never played organized sports at all…ever. For them, I’ve got a lot of admiration. It really takes a certain amount of courage to try something completely new among others with significantly more experience than you. I say good for them. I hope I’m open to new things and not still paralyzed by my perfectionistic tendencies and fear of failure when I’m 50!

Category: Deep Thoughts, Recreation

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