~:[CH14 - Day 43]:~ The Ideal Length

 
~:[CH14 - Day 43]:~ The Ideal Length

It always is the longest day when you go back in time. From the time that I awoke until the time that I am going to sleep spanned 35 hours. While I did take a nap on the way home, it still can be a grueling day, although fatigue didn't fill my body. As I got back into rhythm, the day itself went smoothly as I was happy to get back on track. Of course, the length of the day was not ideal. Later that evening, I headed to El Toro for our first round matchup. I was most excited to be back for this game. We got off to a good start, but fell behind a bit in a fairly close game throughout. As they pulled away slightly, I knew that we needed to refocus and get things together. We made a run and made it into a two possession game, before they hit a few shots and you could finally sense that this might be the end. It was a game where we missed the shots that they hit and sometimes, that's how the game of basketball goes. It wasn't ideal to finish in the first round, especially after sensing the magic of last year's run, however, the question to me was, what is the ideal length for anything in our lives. If something ended up being too long, did we work too much? If we ended up falling short in the first round, was it a disappointment? If we're somewhere in the middle, how do we evaluate that? There is no length of time that is ideal. In our lifetime, we never know how long we have, thus looking at the ideal age to live until may be time wasted, rather than making the most of the time that we have. While it would be great to control the length of time within our lives, since it's often out of our control, let's focus on making each of the moments within that time great. As it's easy to allow time to pass us by when we're too worried about things which we cannot control. Appreciate the time we have and treasure every moment of it. Congrats to the boys on a wonderful season and to the seniors, a wonderful career.