Decisions, decisions
Well, I thought I had it under control. 6 months and then I would go back. Unfortunately, I found myself agreeing to fill in for a few superleague games. Then I found myself agreeing to join a superleague team. Now I’ve been asked to join a Monday night A grade ladies team, and have the feeling I will be agreeing to that. So where has all of it gotten me? No where. All I need is one Thursday night team and I’ll be back where I was 3 months ago.
Since I started filling in for my friend for her inhouse teams I found I had begun enjoying the games again. Towards the end of last year I began really dreading the games, trying to make excuses on why I shouldn’t play that night. The one thing that I always swore not to do was to be a burden to my team. I wanted to be loyal, and dependable. But I wasn’t anymore. So I quit.
Filling in every so often has been fantastic. Although my first couple of games back I was getting REALLY frustrated. I couldn’t move my feet, I wasn’t watching the ball, I was doing everything wrong. Kimba could sense my mood and came over to give me words of encouragement. “Just keep moving your feet,” she said. “It will assist you to take that extra step.” Tried it tonight and it worked (thank god). It was about time I played some decent netball. So thanks Kimba!
So now I’m stuck with a dilemma. Do I go back on my original plan and return to netball early? Or do I say no to Megan for now, wait the final 3 months and hope that there’s room on a team for me in the future. Mat didn’t want me to play, but I think that’s only so that I’m home to cook him some dinner…grr…
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April 11th, 2006 at 10:25 am
hmmm,
What a nice dilema you have right now
If i were you (and its only a suggestion, which has its pros and cons), I would say to Megan that you would like to stick with the superleague team, and that way you are only gradually moving back to the game. It might mean though that you may upset your friend Megan, but if u explain to her that by gradually going back to the sport, you will enjoy the game for longer, then i’m sure she will understand you not going back to her team for a couple of months yet.
When you go back to only doing superleague, you might (hopefully) still feel the desire to play more games, but you should resist this for a bit so that you know after a couple of months whether or not you really want to do the same work load as you did before.