Goal

Its 1:13am, a Sunday morning. I just finished watching a video in Youtube.

Messi vs Ronaldinho ● Who Is The Barcelona King? ||HD||

I like watching football and i have started to like the game from recent times. I like the game where i can see a player take the ball through the 2 or 3 opponents (if you see the above video you would understand what i am talking about). Messi plays that way. As i watched this video i was thinking, what makes these 2 players great? Is it their talent or is it their hard work? How do they play so well? Whats going on in their head while they are trying to take a shot? Do they think at all? Is it all adrenaline? I have NO clue. I play, but not like them. So No clue.

But here is what my thought process was while i watched the video. Messi is small. Ronaldinho looks strong.   Both have become successful. Both should have been picked up by some manager for the first time who gave them a big break. Both must have been rejected at some point. May be several times. Both must have sacrificed. Both must have to wake up early morning reach the place to be trained to reach the place where they are today. Even when they have practiced a particular skill a thousand times and they are THE BEST in it, they still work on it every morning. Even when its a routine, even when they are in no mood for it, You just got to do what you got to do. This routine teaches your body to know where the ball is even without looking at it directly. You get few years to play a game that you LOVE, if you want to make it big, you have to give it ALL.

GIVE IT ALL. Practice makes your body or mind to be natural in it. You don't have to think much. All the efforts you put in practice makes you put less effort while you use this skill. You dribble the ball slow at times and sometimes fast, keeping your eyes always on the goal. Dribble the ball, tackle the opponents to get through them. Give your energy, give your heart and soul to make it work. Opponents WILL tackle, push you to your limits. Sometimes you fight back, sometimes you just change the direction and take it forward. Sometimes you pass the ball to your team member who you think can help. Sometimes you WILL lose the ball, but you don't stop running. You just have to get the ball back again from the opponents. When its time for you to strike, you STRIKE. Make the effort count. It might be stopped, but you don't stop striking again. You got to strike it again, and again, and again, and again. until the final whistle is blown.

The point is this, they have seen failures but never lost hope. No matter how the game is, no matter how strong the opponent is, focus is not moved. When they move with the ball probably here is what they do, fight the opponents, change the direction but ever moving towards goal, take that strike and Hope you stroke  right, Hope that its not stopped, hope that it reaches its goal.

I wish I was as dedicated as these guys are, I wish I could give my all in everything I do, I wish I tackle it right, I wish I keeping pressing forward, I wish I strike, and strike it well, I wish it reaches its goal and I wish the final whistle is not blown. Mostly I wish i never lose Hope.

2 peter 1: 5-8 - 'But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.'