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Today Victoria Junior College Softball guys team beat Hwa Chong Junior College 11 - 6. And i realise i'm very very much detached from the team now. Hanging out around the bench i realise that the people i was looking at, the people whom i had trained with before, they had changed, it wasn't hard to be uncomfortable in their midst. It was like there was a wall that grew somehow to drag me away from them. Next time, i think i'll sit in the stands.
This year we've got a strong team with experience and talent, with grit and determination, with the motivation and the reason to win, but we - no, they - don't look like a team. No offense/spite/whatever guys, but when i stand and watch, when i hear and listen it isn't a team i see, its just a body of people standing together with the same motive, the same goal - to take home the title. Despite their will and skill i feel they are lacking the most important thing, being a team.
In my view a team isn't just a bunch people who train together or who work for the same goal or who suffer together or who play together. Its a group of friends who know and understand each other, who feel for each other, who are comfortable no matter when with each other, who would sacrifice and share with each other. It is a group that transcends boundaries, you are not just friends, you are not merely buddies or besties, you are brothers and as close as blood, you would fight to your hardest and fullest and bleed just so you don't let them down. To win becomes a mere side effect, but to play together, that becomes the true reason for striving.
But when i look at them i see them split, i see them unsure and insecure of what they should do, what they should say, how they should say, if they should say. After victory there was no joy permeating throughout the team, instead it was like they'd finished the job and it was time to rest, no joy, no spirit. Even when they seat they seat apart, they discuss the match apart and comment apart as if they were afraid of each other listening. I had to drag the yeartwos over to join the yearones (and park) and even then they ended up just sitting around, unsure.
What happened when i disappeared for that short while? Maybe nothing, but evil prevailed when the good men did nothing.
Next week its Raffles Junior College, the team to beat, the benchmark for the title, the defending champions, the target for the team. Prepared or not the team must fight and strive to win to make their mark, to get that chance at the title, to make the gold after decades.
Good luck guys. I love you all.
impossible is nothing
Today Victoria Junior College Softball guys team beat Hwa Chong Junior College 11 - 6. And i realise i'm very very much detached from the team now. Hanging out around the bench i realise that the people i was looking at, the people whom i had trained with before, they had changed, it wasn't hard to be uncomfortable in their midst. It was like there was a wall that grew somehow to drag me away from them. Next time, i think i'll sit in the stands.
This year we've got a strong team with experience and talent, with grit and determination, with the motivation and the reason to win, but we - no, they - don't look like a team. No offense/spite/whatever guys, but when i stand and watch, when i hear and listen it isn't a team i see, its just a body of people standing together with the same motive, the same goal - to take home the title. Despite their will and skill i feel they are lacking the most important thing, being a team.
In my view a team isn't just a bunch people who train together or who work for the same goal or who suffer together or who play together. Its a group of friends who know and understand each other, who feel for each other, who are comfortable no matter when with each other, who would sacrifice and share with each other. It is a group that transcends boundaries, you are not just friends, you are not merely buddies or besties, you are brothers and as close as blood, you would fight to your hardest and fullest and bleed just so you don't let them down. To win becomes a mere side effect, but to play together, that becomes the true reason for striving.
But when i look at them i see them split, i see them unsure and insecure of what they should do, what they should say, how they should say, if they should say. After victory there was no joy permeating throughout the team, instead it was like they'd finished the job and it was time to rest, no joy, no spirit. Even when they seat they seat apart, they discuss the match apart and comment apart as if they were afraid of each other listening. I had to drag the yeartwos over to join the yearones (and park) and even then they ended up just sitting around, unsure.
What happened when i disappeared for that short while? Maybe nothing, but evil prevailed when the good men did nothing.
Next week its Raffles Junior College, the team to beat, the benchmark for the title, the defending champions, the target for the team. Prepared or not the team must fight and strive to win to make their mark, to get that chance at the title, to make the gold after decades.
Good luck guys. I love you all.
impossible is nothing
posted by slipperdan at 10:55 PM
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Sounds like fun... best of luck! :)
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