Life is a game

Life is a game.Of course a game that you cannot save and try to load later.What's past is past.A shot missed will never go in.A pass missed will never be recovered.A second passed will not return.What set the victors and vanquished apart? We are no professional or even semi-professional yet we train,we sweat,we bleed,we bruise and we grit in pain for all we did,in hope of vanquishing the opponent and leaving the court a victor.Thus,skill and ability-wise,the dividing line is blur.What have they got and we not?It is the heart,the determination to go for every ball as if it is your life depends on it.It is the passion,the love for the game.No,it is not the beautiful game that most people in the world play.It is a theoritically non-contact ball game played in rectangular court with two small hoop on opposite ends as the targets.However,with ten persons moving with speed and superb agility within a confine space,contacts is inevitable.It is the game one call it basketball. Over two halves of twenty minutes each,on a tarred court as the chosen battlefield,two teams, comprising of 5 players and 7 benchers slugging it out to outwit,outrun and outscore each other.The heart is not there,one say.That guy is too good,say another.Nevertheless,we felt threatened for the odd was not against us.When they managed to take the fight to us and fight us tooth for tooth,we feel......defeated.When one is defeated at the heart,that's one real defeat.How many times have I been outscored by the other team and yet not defeated?But this is one real defeat,a loss that is hard to take.Hopefully a loss that will be a lesson for the future. Life is a game with no rules but one rule that rules - never ever give up. I love this game.