Wednesday, September 20, 2006

-Soccer through the ages......-

remember picking up soccer at the age of 9...... it was a totally messed up game then...... no fancy formations, no roles for anyone...... everyone's aim was just to get a kick of the ball...... there wasn't even any goalmouths to score in...... everyone was there purely for the fun of it...... however, like always ,there was a bully in the park...... a fella named leon...... he was a couple of years older than me and my mates...... and he had a mean punt in him...... right then, our dream was to kick harder and higher and further than him...... it was pure fun......

soccer in secondary school was a bonding agent for me and my pals...... best part of secondary school life had to be soccer...... everyday, the motivation for going to school was the game with classmates after school...... that was where i made my best mates; my brothers, amongst my classmates...... however, soccer also divided the rest of us...... we formed a class team and i couldn't believe how power hungry people could get...... all that backstabbing and shitty stuff just disgusted me...... being divided by ideas and temperaments, some who couldn't take it left...... the others stayed...... and the team remains...... just as a team...... nothing much to mention of in friendship......

nowadays soccer just remains as a special time when i and my brothers fight together for each other...... it has also become a time for me to meet them amongst our packed scheduled lives...... however, on a personal level, all the shit i get in life just gets pent up...... and when i have the chance to play soccer, to sweat it out, to give the ball abit of a kick, everything bothering me just goes out...... at least for the half of that day......

soccer is just not a matter of life and death to me...... its much more than that...... it's knowing that with my brothers around, i'll never walk alone......


| wish i was dead @ 6:15 AM|

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