Showing up is less about you.
Today, Gibson took to the football field for his second to
last game this season. At 8:45 in the
morning dozens of little eight and nine year old boys ran onto the field and
tried their best to rise to the occasion.
There were tackles and touchdowns, penalties and punts. With each play, a little boy would hit the
field and with each play they would get back up… except for the times they didn’t. Those times that make all mothers in the
stands cringe.
One boy, didn’t get up right away. His parents were in front of us and were
eventually called down to the field to be told that their son was being pulled
from the game due to a headache…news that made me cringe, and I am not even his
mom.
As the parents came back to the stands they told their
friends what had happened. In response
another mother began, in great detail, telling a story of another boy who had a
similar injury, who ended up in the hospital, lost sight in his, eye and has yet
to return to school….*&%^*!
Steve and I looked at each other and SOH, {SHOOK OUR HEADS…..texting language drives me bonkers….but
I thought it pnly appropriate here} and started coming up with the title for
the blog about when people show up too much…………….
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