by Dr. David Davis
This is the time of the year when football fanatics are in the prime of their life. Football season is just around the corner, and we are excited about what the future holds for our favorite team — whether it is high school, college, or the NFL.
There seems to be one thing that happens during the course of a game that really gets to me. That’s when a quarterback throws a perfect pass to his receiver — only to watch him drop the ball.
Or to see a defensive back who breaks on a pass and has a pick six, but fails to catch the ball and misses an opportunity to score a touchdown for his team.The reason I mention this is because we are all going to drop the ball in life.
I’m talking about making mistakes. Doing the wrong thing, usually with the best of motives. And it happens with remarkable regularity.What really bothers me is when someone points out our failures, but then expects you to be more forgiving when they fail. Ever meet anyone like that? I can assure you I have!
In a book entitled: The Incomplete Book of Failures by Stephen Pile — the author shares such things as: the least successful weather report, the worst computer, the slowest selling book, the worst aircraft, the ugliest building ever constructed, and some of the worst statements…proven wrong in time.
Some of those statements were:
“Far too noisy, my dear Mozart. Far too many notes” ~ The Emperor Ferdinand after the first performance of The Marriage of Figaro.
“If Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will soon fall into disuse.” ~ Philip Hale, Boston music critic, 1837.
“We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out.” ~ Decca Recording Company when turning down the Beatles in 1962.
“You will never amount to very much.” ~ A Munich schoolmaster to Albert Einstein, age 10.
The truth is — all of us will blow it at some time or another. Instead of being the designated critic — be the one who helps pull someone up when they fall. We must take the risk to make mistakes. We must have the courage to start again. It is better to get up when knocked down!
Some anonymous writer penned these words:
To stand up than to stay down!
To keep on than to give up!
To hold on than to drop out!
To move on than to roll over!
No one is beaten until he quits,
No one is through till he stops.
No matter how hard failure hits,
No matter how often he drops,
A fellow is not down till he lies
In the dust and refuses to rise.
Fate may bang him around
And batter him till he is sore,
But it is never said that he’s down
While he bobs up for more.
A fellow is not dead till he dies,
Nor done till he no longer tries.
Old friend Robert said, “So then – whenever one of us blows it and we can’t hide it…how about a little support from those who haven’t been caught yet?”
Opps – correction. How about a lot of support?
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