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While playing pickleball, when we muff a shot, hit the ball too hard and send it soaring out of the court, serve out of bounds, whiff the ball completely (funny every time) or some other clownish act while swinging the paddle, we tend to feel self-conscious and idiotic. Uh ... DUH. So when one of my fellow pickleballers messes up, I try to make that person feel better - as we laugh together - by saying, "HEY, WE ALL DO IT."
Because it's true. We do ALL do it. Every pickleball player misses the ball at times, muffs a shot, or hits it way too hard like a baseball ... it is the nature of the game. After all, we are not professional players.
Being human is the nature of life. So when you muff up something, go at it too hard, miss your mark, or some other dufus act in a given moment, hour, or day - and feel self-conscious and idiotic about it ... DON'T.
Snippeteers, never feel as if you are "the only one" in the room to act, think, feel, do, or show something idiotically. Chances are, MANY others have done / thought / said / felt that same thing.
Hey, we all do it.
This goes from accidentally tooting in public ...
- to getting caught by someone else while bitching at your husband
- to saying the wrong thing to someone
- to waving back at someone who was actually waving to the person behind you
- to tripping up the steps in front of your priest as you walk into church
- to burning the bagel in the toaster - every time
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to saying “You, too” when the waiter tells you to enjoy your meal
- to walking into a glass door
- to wearing your pickleball pants inside out
The humanity list of FOOLISH THINGS WE DO goes on and on. DUH!
After all, we are not professionals - we are only human beings.
So give yourself a break next time you "feel like a clown," eh?? Ditch the self-consciousness and know you are not the only silly clumsy human in the room.
AND ... go easy on others - without your judgement - when you witness them doing something brainless.
Because guess what? We ALL do it.
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