Growth - basketball

I can feel the growth in me.

two particular growth to point out today.

the person besides you, most of the time, is the one who see the true picture of you.

take their point, and you can see the amazing change in you.

two person voice out my weakness while playing basketball,

one is my girl friend, another one is a totally stranger that it was the first time we met.

my girl friend wonders, why I seem like more fatigue and rushed breath than others player who

were in the same game with me.

I thought all this while it was my own physical problem, but soon i realize it wasn't.

it was merely mental. not psychotic that type of mental problem,

but simply mindset and attitude.

i wonder how i change too.

I don't feel as fatigue as i always felt before, and of course, i am glad with such changes.

ah! the stranger!

he told me to be ready and alert always.

I never thought of that, i mean, never thought that would be a problem for me

as I thought: "didn't I ready and alert all the time?"

I was wrong, obviously. Sometimes, i couldn't get the ball my group members passed.

I started aware of that. And he just told me few words, and a simple hand gesture,

it solved my problem.

He raised up his hand to shoulder height, a ready-to-fight-gesture, only the fingers are widespread, a posture as though the ball is coming your way and you ready to catch it

and he told me to maintain this posture all the time.

Wow! It works well!

A coach in life do makes life easier,

it could be your girlfriend, your mother, your brother, your best friends,

or simply a perfect stranger!

So, don't ever reject one's words, until you really think and try it.

if your words work for you or others, why not the others' word work on you as well?