“This is a very simple game. You throw the
ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you
lose, sometimes it rains.” Bull
Durham, 1988
One of the best lines from any sports movie ever
written. It would be nice if life were
that simple. Don’t get me wrong it could
be, but just like the movie we all seem to be the Ebby Calvin LaLoosh character
rather than Crash Davis. We make it far
more complex than it could be for a thousand different reasons.
I think a big reason we seem to make life complex is we are
surrounded by experts. They have become
unavoidable. Everywhere you turn there
is some kind of expert telling you how to clean your pores, end embarrassing age
spots, store stuff under the bed, pick the fantasy athletes for a sport, choose
the “March Madness ®” brackets, seal leaks in your basement, choose
a political ideology, or why this President, or the last one, is a worthless
pile of dung.
Maybe it’s time to abandon the experts and just deal with
the life you’ve been given, make it as good as possible, and at the end of the
day see how it played out. Think about
this before you leave.
“You're
5 foot nothin', 100 and nothin', and you have barely a speck of athletic
ability. And you hung in there with the best college football players in the
land for 2 years. And you're gonna walk outta here with a degree from the
University of Notre Dame. In this life, you don't have to prove nothin' to
nobody but yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done
that by now, it ain't gonna never happen. Now go on back.” Rudy,
1993
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