The trophy goes in a box someday. The friends who drove you to practice don’t.
REFLECTION
WHAT THIS MEANS
Objects that record a result stop mattering fairly quickly, because the result itself stops mattering. What lasts is the people attached to the effort: whoever drove, waited, came to watch in bad weather. A season was mostly those relationships, and the trophy was a small metal summary of them.
Thank one of the people who made your practices possible this week, by name and for something specific. If you are the one doing the driving for somebody else, that is the part they will keep.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which teammates do you want around after the season ends?
MORE IN MEANING & PERSPECTIVE
- Think about what you worried about two years ago. Can you even remember? That’s your answer for today too.
- Saying thank you to the people who raised you won’t feel like much. It will mean more than you’ll know.
- Find your town on a globe. Then remember every big thing that ever happened to you happened in that dot.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.