Self-confidence

Among all those silly failures that I've listed, I'm afraid I left out one very important one.

FAILURE TO GET TOP 20 IN CHEM FOR PROMOS. (zomg!)

How could I forget that. Maybe I'm just living in my own world of denial.

Anyway, today's post is about feeling good. Assuming that life is tough and everyone wants to feel good, it is important to know how to feel good. Of course, you can't feel good when the circumstances are against you, but feelings are pretty much controlled by yourself, and therefore you have the power to feel good.

Or should I say, YOUR feelings are pretty much controlled by yourself. Everything is relative and everything should be put into perspective.

Let's take a very basic example - playing basketball. You have no idea how many times I've been shooting and missing by a few miles, usually because I think I'm shooting birds and blast the ball right over the board. Well, Michael Jordan missed his 9000 shots, and I haven't missed that many so far.

Though I haven't been playing a lot.. but never mind that.

The trick is to letting yourself believe that you are skilled in other areas.

If you play basketball and keep airballing (ie it doesn't touch the board because you're a weakling), you don't have to think you suck at basketball. Even if your coach says so, think that you are made for HANDBALL. Yup, in handball it is essential not to shoot over the goalmouth. Therefore that is the sport for you if you can't shoot high enough.

After all, it's quite true that sometimes the basket is too high. It's difficult to slam dunk and that takes away the fun of basketball.

If your aiming is just way off and even though you can reach the required height for basketball, it means that probably VOLLEYBALL is your game. Every cloud has a silver lining, and thus every failure must mean you have talent in someplace else. Shooting left and right will ensure that the opponent gets pwned. That's how volleyball works, and voila, you've made yourself useful again.

If you keep shooting too hard against the board (they call it 篮板球) and it just reflects right back to you, there is this game called WATERPOLO where hard shots are for the win. The only thing is that you have to know how to swim. If you don't, try doing ARCHERY. You could shoot birds up in trees.

If you keep shooting a little over the top of the basketball board, then perhaps you should consider playing NETBALL. You just need to be a little tyco, and the ball will automatically go in. Try a few high angle shots, and if they fail you in Netball, perhaps you are just made for Beach Volleyball, where I believe the net is slightly higher and you'd be ultimate ownage at that.

And if you think you're totally shit at basketball such that you blast the ball way over the top, or you can't seem to get the ball off the ground..

..you're not at your wits' end yet.

There's always BOWLING, a traditional favourite among those who likes aircon and who hates altitude. You don't swing bowling balls all over the place do you? And for those who keeps shooting WAY OVER THE TOP..

..uh, we refer you back to this module in RI Physical Education. Something we all did in our Sec 4 year. Territorial/invasion and the other games. I only remember one sort of game because I just don't really remember the rest (like duh).

Anyway, the thing is, if you fail at all the sports available, the module that I was talking about is.. INVENTING GAMES!! Many years have gone by and new things keep popping up all over the place. The idea is: if you can't find a sport you're good at, you MAKE a sport you're good at.

Many losers are bloody good at this. Notice when a country hosts the SEA Games or the Olympics, they get to choose what games they want to play? They simply take away the events they simply have no hope at, and then introduce some obscure crap that they trained for damn long and suddenly get free golds.

Of course, others might say it's cheap. But a gold is a gold.

Let's take for example HOOP TAKRAW, going to be played in the next SEA Games. It's quite obviously a cheap copy of sepak takraw, and adjusted a little to make it advantageous for those who keep pumping the ball way up high but without any power. While they get whooped in sepak takraw, they can seek solace that they are masters in getting balls in hoops.

Balls to them actually, that's no big deal. Still, they'd be wHOOPing at the end of the day when they get their medals because the world is about being good, no matter how you get there.

Don't let them get you down, Inventing Games are good. That's why it's graded for your final PE grade.

In other words, there's no reason not to have self-confidence. The world is made for you to succeed in, and already in sports you are guaranteed sure success.

Perhaps, if you are too lazy to move your arse on the basketball court or on any sort of playing field, you could invent this sport called STONING.

The possibilities are endless.

But I think I might win the stoning contest.

Still, in the meantime, do have self-confidence. It's good for your ego and it's good for feeling good. You get positive externalities when you feel good so uh, yup just feel good.