The Simple Things
Several years ago, one of my high school English teachers gave us an assignment. We had to write a paper about an epiphany we'd had. Most of didn't even know what an epiphany was at the time. I don't remember what I wrote and if I even wrote it. We were only 15, most of us hadn't had any life changing events in our lives.
The point is that Saturday night, I had an epiphany. I went bowling. While bowling may not seem like a very life changing event, it was. For almost 8 years, I have refused to even consider going bowling. My friends have had to find other interesting things to do if bowling was suggested. The last time I went bowling, I was thirteen. I went with Josh, (my boyfriend at the time) his sister, and her husband. I bowled a 25, that's horrible. Needless to say, he laughed at me. He never forgot it either. It was like some huge joke that I was so horrible at it. Really it is like cosmic injustice, my grandmother, stepgrandfather, aunt, dad, mom, and my brother have been on bowling leagues. So I had nixed the idea of ever doing it again. Saturday, my best friend's little brother asked me to bowl and in a moment of weakness I said yes.
I was so nervous and threatened them with bodily harm if they made fun of me. I didn't suck. Granted, I am not perfect but I'm not horrible either.
So my epiphany was that I had let fear keep me from doing something that I actually do like. That's life changing, small, but life changing. It affected the way I was thinking about some of my classes for my degree. It's pretty much made me rethink a lot of things in the past few days. So, I had to tell people.
The point is that Saturday night, I had an epiphany. I went bowling. While bowling may not seem like a very life changing event, it was. For almost 8 years, I have refused to even consider going bowling. My friends have had to find other interesting things to do if bowling was suggested. The last time I went bowling, I was thirteen. I went with Josh, (my boyfriend at the time) his sister, and her husband. I bowled a 25, that's horrible. Needless to say, he laughed at me. He never forgot it either. It was like some huge joke that I was so horrible at it. Really it is like cosmic injustice, my grandmother, stepgrandfather, aunt, dad, mom, and my brother have been on bowling leagues. So I had nixed the idea of ever doing it again. Saturday, my best friend's little brother asked me to bowl and in a moment of weakness I said yes.
I was so nervous and threatened them with bodily harm if they made fun of me. I didn't suck. Granted, I am not perfect but I'm not horrible either.
So my epiphany was that I had let fear keep me from doing something that I actually do like. That's life changing, small, but life changing. It affected the way I was thinking about some of my classes for my degree. It's pretty much made me rethink a lot of things in the past few days. So, I had to tell people.