We had our last softball game on Monday night. We came so incredibly close to finishing with a perfect record, perfectly bad... We lost the first 9 games we played. Not only did we lose them but some of them we lost bad! We finally won one finishing a very respectable 1-9 (ok, it's a stretch)We went from hoping to win every game to hoping to finish with a 5-5 season to hoping to win one stinkin' game. We would get fired up for every game telling ourselves "this is the game". We got close a couple times but we always seemed to let the close ones slip away. We did end up winning the last game of the season. We beat them pretty bad. It felt really good to finally win.
We learned a lot during the season. Even though we may have missed the playoffs by a mere 7 or 8 games we sure did learn some great life lessons. We saw people bond in friendships that wouldn't have happened on Sunday morning. We saw some tempers being held under control even when sometimes it may have been easy to justify losing their cool. We saw people cheering others on when they were down and being encouraged when we just couldn't seem to get a break. Lets not overlook all the butt patting...
My point: Our pathetic record may not reflect a good or even average season but we had a lot of victories. Relationships formed that will last for a long time. Personality flaws were sharpened. Even when others may see a loss, it is up to you to define the moment. There are lessons in everything, it just may take some extra hard looking.
We have some incredible momentum going into next season. Losing flat out stinks but I guess looking back, I would do it again (I just pray I don't have to).
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