This I Believe...

I believe that life is unfair. I know that isn’t a very cheerful beginning that you were looking for, but I also believe that everything happens for a reason. I actually had something very recently happen to me that fit this belief. Yesterday, I had a golf tournament and it was to go to sectionals. There was a very slim chance that we could make it as a team but I definitely could make it individually. I would have to shoot my worst round of the year to not make it. I started off on the front nine fairly bad but not bad enough to not go. Then I started the back nine and it gets worse. I know though if I get my act together I can still go. I get to the 14th hole, I hit my drive and it goes right into the fescue. I started looking for my ball. The fescue is extremely thick but I found my ball really embedded. I decide to try and swing at it. I hit the ball and it just gets embedded further. Usually when I hit a ball like that it hurts my wrist a bit and the same happened here. I was getting frustrated but I decide to try again.  I hit and sure enough it gets embedded even further but that was the least of my worries. After that hit, my wrist started throbbing! At this point, I don’t know what to do now because I can’t move my wrist and I can’t take relief from the fescue. I start thinking of my options and if I quit there is no way I could make it to sectionals. If I keep on playing it will be extremely painful and frustrating.  I decide to keep playing because if I stop I can’t go to sectionals. I end up with a ten on that hole. It doesn’t get much better because I can’t move my wrist.

So for the end of my story I did not make it to sectionals. I missed the cut by two strokes! I was obviously upset but at the end of the day I have to shrug it off. I don’t know what the reason was on why I didn’t make it to sectionals but I’m sure I will find out someday. Everything has a way of coming back to us in the end. I have to look back and say life is unfair but everything DOES happen for a reason.