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We are meant to suffer. We are designed to get our hopes up and have them squelched. The author of the mega-hit book The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck, opened with this sentence: “Life is difficult.” Sho is.
Blame Adam and Eve. Or Flip Flipokowski. Or Joey Brackets. Or howl into the wind. Rail against life itself. It’s understandable. You’re entitled to a good cry.
You feel distraught today because the Wake Forest basketball team lost a crucial game last night to Notre Dame that could knock them out of the March Madness Senior Prom just three days after beating Duke and all but cementing an invite to play hoops with the Big Dude Dancers in March. Wake was in. Now they could be out. Everyone in the world gets distraught and feels teased, especially Wake Forest sports fans.
Our fate is to get our hopes up and have them squelched.
This is our reality just like dying is a reality and paying taxes and having to work and dealing with sports bloggers and when you beat Duke Wake rolls the Quad. All truisms, always, until the end of time.
Our emotions are being tested. Can we handle this daily uncertainty? Is all the teasing of our deepest desires becoming too unbearable? How are we going to cope with these next three games knowing we could lose them all or two or one of them and play ourselves off the Big Dance floor before the music even starts?
We need coping mechanisms. This isn’t something to be endured by ourselves because, frankly, it’s too hard. It’s not reasonable to ask us to draw upon the wherewithal within ourselves to cope with where we are right now with this Wake basketball team, tantalizingly close to the tournament, precariously dangling, possibly out, dismay looming. We need words of wisdom to fill our minds and soothe our aching hearts because this situation we’re in is too much to tackle as individuals.
Look Notre Dame played great last night led by that freshman guard who will be the National Freshman of the Year. Defensively, ND made it tough to do much offensively. All game long. This wasn’t a trap game in which Wake wasn’t ready and still distracted by the Duke win. There were no jinxes; jinxes, sphinxes. Junk all the jinx jabber.
Our team played with energy and focus. Notre Dame was just better and has to be the best 11 and 18 team in America. We missed 9 trillion shots; teams don’t win doing that. The strategy should have been to not have all those bricks and instead go down low to our versatile two big guys and let them either score or get fouled because that would have happened against the younger Notre Dame post players.
But it’s over. How are we going to handle this? Criticize these players we have fallen in love with? Abandon them now in this crucial stretch of the season? Worry we’re going to choke away this opportunity to finally saunter onto the Senior Prom dance floor?
We could easily do that. It’s easy to pout and blame. But that’s not what any of us should do because it won’t make anyone involved feel better or win the games needed to get where we all want to go. I believe we should absorb the wisdom of these three spellbinding thinkers: Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins, and Deepak Chopra.
Dyer:
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
Robbins:
The truth is we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose.
Chopra:
I will practice acceptance. Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur.”
This should make you feel better.
It’s all going to work out. Wake will be going to the Final Four this season and you’ll be partying with me, Sammy Sportface, all night long.
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