~:[CH14 - Day 319]:~ If It's In The Cards

 
~:[CH14 - Day 319]:~ If It's In The Cards

We don't always control what happens in our life. Luck and fate play their role as well. I spend the day catching up on work, while also watching the CIF races that took place on Saturday. I was glad we raced on Friday as it was pouring on there on Saturday. While our season was over, I captured the CIF cards that I write annually to the athletes. I make a design on them and write on the back. This year, I decided to type on the back since it often bleeds through the card and ruins the front design. While originally, I wasn't planning to do the cards with my changed role, I decided it was a tradition I wanted to stick with and thus I did. As I reflected on our season, there were things that went well and others that didn't go so well. Rather than worrying on how to change things, I figured we can just roll with what happens and not become a worrywart. If it's in the cards, it will happen and if it's not, it won't. In life, we can only do our best and the rest is left up to that fate and if luck is on our side, things will pan out, if not, we'll figure it out. At the end of the day, we finally found out that the cards fell in line for Whitney as they advanced to CIF Finals. The timing error caused a long delay in the results, but I was glad to see this team advance, especially considering we had two former athletes on the boys team (one on the girls team). It was a well deserved accomplishment and a reminder that when you work hard and never give up, you give yourself an opportunity. I'll look forward to the opportunities ahead for me and my students and athletes, but for now, all I can do is put my head down and work, preparing myself for the road ahead, the same message my athletes will read when they read through their cards.