Muse back!
April 15, 2008 / Tuesday
Improvement
The 2007 Winter Season awards were announced yesterday. I opened the e-mail, scrolled down, and saw my name next to "MIP". My first reaction? Relief! I suck less than I did when I started last season! Yeah!
Okay, I don't really think about it in terms of suck, but you get the idea. Most of us have a skewed view of where we really stand, how good we really are, etc., so having my self-perceived improvement validated externally helped set me at ease a bit. Yeah, I know, sometimes I think/worry about this too much. It makes me better, it's annoying as hell, it's good for me, it's bad for me, I should do it more, I should stop.
Relief aside, I'm really quite happy about this. This is why I'm here. Along those lines, I'm also happy that I've had teammates who are willing to help. When I have a question about how I should or could be doing something I ask, and when my teammates see that I should or could be doing something differently they tell me. I'm grateful that they're sharing their experience and knowledge with me.
I'm learning a lot just from watching, too. I find that I'm sometimes wowed by what the players can do, but more often impressed by what they *think* to do. Take last Sunday's game, for example. One of my linemates scored on a beautiful over-the-shoulder corner-of-the-net blazing-fast slapshot. Was I wowed? Absolutely. Soon after, my other linemate scored by lobbing the puck over the goalie's head. You know what I would have done? I would have shot the puck, and it probably would have bounced off someone. Watching that easy lob go in made me grin. I would love to think to do that someday.
Comments
High five from one MIP to another! I had the same thought. LOL!
Posted by: Jennie at April 22, 2008 05:01 PM
MIP Five! *whapah*
Posted by: Viv at April 22, 2008 05:02 PM