sunday football gang
its the last 15 minutes of my 23rd big day as i'm writing this down.
now that the world cups over, it seems that my life has been sucked into a void. no football for the next 3 or so weeks. my whole life, at least till now, has always been occupied with football. ever since i learnt how to properly kick a ball back in my kampong when i was 3 or 4. football is never far from my mind. yet, now, this emptiness is hard to describe.
there used to be regular football games every sundays between my secondary school batch of fellow football enthusiasts. yet as time went by, most were drawn away by studies, work, or other reasons. of the original founding members of this group, only 3 of us remained. yet it seems that these sundays' football games would come to an end soon. even though the whole shenanigan lasted for almost 7years, it does leave a bitter taste in its miserable demise. i'm not disappointed that the whole thing has run finished its natural course, but rather that the rest of the people couldnt match the remaining 3 of our passion and commitment. maybe they thought studies/work/girlfriends are more important, or maybe they thought that since there'll always be 3 of us, and we 3 would usually gather the others, thus they need not come so often, or maybe they just lost their interest. i dont blame them, complacency is a silent beast, one never realises its grasp on oneself. but as i mentioned, its disappointing.
and studies. yeah, study hard and get a good job. thats the mantra handed down generation after generation. but is 4hours of a single day every week too much to ask for? to me, studies are just a lazy excuse. if one needs to study even on a sunday, it just proves that one hasnt studied for the previous 6 days.
i dont know how many of them will come across this, or even if they do, they'll think, "yeah, he's not even in university. what does he know about our stressful schedule?" if thats the case, let it be, i'll always be an outsider to the rest, but at least i hope this would have served as a wake up call to some. this issue not only relates to football, but to life as well. think about it.
now that the world cups over, it seems that my life has been sucked into a void. no football for the next 3 or so weeks. my whole life, at least till now, has always been occupied with football. ever since i learnt how to properly kick a ball back in my kampong when i was 3 or 4. football is never far from my mind. yet, now, this emptiness is hard to describe.
there used to be regular football games every sundays between my secondary school batch of fellow football enthusiasts. yet as time went by, most were drawn away by studies, work, or other reasons. of the original founding members of this group, only 3 of us remained. yet it seems that these sundays' football games would come to an end soon. even though the whole shenanigan lasted for almost 7years, it does leave a bitter taste in its miserable demise. i'm not disappointed that the whole thing has run finished its natural course, but rather that the rest of the people couldnt match the remaining 3 of our passion and commitment. maybe they thought studies/work/girlfriends are more important, or maybe they thought that since there'll always be 3 of us, and we 3 would usually gather the others, thus they need not come so often, or maybe they just lost their interest. i dont blame them, complacency is a silent beast, one never realises its grasp on oneself. but as i mentioned, its disappointing.
and studies. yeah, study hard and get a good job. thats the mantra handed down generation after generation. but is 4hours of a single day every week too much to ask for? to me, studies are just a lazy excuse. if one needs to study even on a sunday, it just proves that one hasnt studied for the previous 6 days.
i dont know how many of them will come across this, or even if they do, they'll think, "yeah, he's not even in university. what does he know about our stressful schedule?" if thats the case, let it be, i'll always be an outsider to the rest, but at least i hope this would have served as a wake up call to some. this issue not only relates to football, but to life as well. think about it.
posted by boredphuck at 11:49 pm
1 Comments:
No wonder I felt something funny about today...Happy Belated Birthday man.
Anyway what you mentioned about soccer happens to my basketball group as well. But for my case, I happen to be the one that hadn't been turning up regularly.
Uni...uni what?!
=P
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