Just
when we were wondering which topic to address today we found our pool time
double booked. We had about 30 Masters ready to swim and then in came the Aqua
Exercise class, to swim as well.
Our local Community College semester begins
today. Our pool isn’t big enough for both groups. We yielded to the other
group. After we smiled, went to our cars, muttered under our breath, unhinged
our jaw and stuck our tongue out (thanks Jim Fannin), we realized in the grand
scheme of things this wasn’t the big deal it seemed at first sight.
And
rarely is it so. We take this swimming business pretty seriously. Like a lot of
you it is important to us. So when things don’t go as anticipated there is a certain
level of inherent frustration. It can be any number of things; a set goes awry,
a swimmer gets sick or messes up in school, a meet doesn’t go well, it rains
and the meet is outdoors, there is thunder and lightning and the meet is put on
hold, a parent steps out of line – for all the right reasons…bottom line is
that stuff happens.
How
we deal with it is the critical part of the equation. It’s only Monday and
look! We have learned another life lesson…sweet.
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