Making the team

Jack making the HHS golf team for the 2nd year has got me thinking. Rick and I are not golfers. Rick hates playing golf. He likes watching Jack play but one time when he was working in Peoria, he was golfing with a Dr. and the Dr. said in his cute Asian accent, "Rick, you know, if someone ask you if you play golf, you really should say no." haha, 15 years later we still laugh at Dr. Chang's advice to Rick. So, Jack finding golf is really sort of a fluke. Let's go back a few years. He played baseball, just rec ball but that's okay. And, he played football. Every boy usually plays a few years of baseball and football around here. Remember we live in SEC country where football in king and we live in Hoover where football is king. We love football, all of us. It's a huge part of our fall. But Jack learned early on that he was not going to be a Hoover football player. Rick and I thought, maybe we should have moved to a district that had a smaller high school so our kids would have an opportunity to play the sport they wanted to. But then we thought, maybe it's better to go to a school that doesn't just let everyone play. They have to make cuts and if you're not good enough to be on the team, well then, you're cut. Trust me, I know what that feels like. It's not fun and it hurts but you know what it does do. It makes you either work harder for the next try out or it makes  you evolve. Jack wasn't going to make the HHS baseball team, he knew that in 7th grade, he wasn't going to see the field on the football team. So, he decided to start golfing.  He tried out when he was a freshman but he was cut. So, he kept on trying and learning and practicing and he made it the next year and then again this year. I always tease him and say, you may not be on fancy tours when you're older but you'll know how to handle business on the golf course and a lot of business deals go down out there. It's tough being cut from a team but life's tough and maybe it's better to learn how to adapt and evolve when you're young so you'll know how to roll with the punhces when you're older and no one's giving you a free pass just because you're you.

***Side note about HHS... Competition is always fierce. There are a lot of kids vying for a few spots. I don't care if it's math team, cheerleading, baseball, soccer or peer helping. They're all good, they're all prepared and they want to make the team. It's always hard. Kudos to the kids who keep on trying and evolving and practicing! Go Bucs!