Loss

So today's page is about loss,  that feeling of defeat.  As an athlete (in so many words) I have to deal with loss most of the time whilst playing in matches.  But at the end of the day it is about how we deal with that loss, whether we are able to bounce back, or do we sit in the corner and cry ourselves to sleep.  In most peoples cases, they let that loss over shadow their next opportunity.  I know at times I have, you know, for example "We can't beat them, they win every year!"  but each year is a new year, there are so many things that we could do with it, so many opportunities to win or lose, both on and off the sports field.

I dealt with a great deal of loss over the past three years, I had to learn to be able to bounce back no matter what happened.  It takes time, it is hard as a teenager, to take on the stresses of your own life, but then also trying to be the foundation your family needs to stand on.  You have to be that undefeatable, unquestionable rock that stands and takes the bullshit whilst everything else crumbles and destroys itself around you.  At times I felt that I had become distant from what I wanted to do, I needed freedom, and that is what loss creates, a dissatisfaction of life, makes you feel useless, unneeded, unwanted, abandoned.

As a teenager, we find when we are home, we much rather be in our own company, chilling, relaxing, thinking that no one around us knows what we are going through, in a way no one does.  Yet, if you just let the loss wash over you, and see the silver lining then you notice that loss is just the beginning to a rise.

Stop looking at things as if it is the end, because it is only beginning to something much better.