A new horizon

Tonight was the start of the season, and returning as the defending champions felt great.  There was the same old faces and the same old teams, all wanting a shot at glory and beating the team that did it all; my team.  We started tonight’s first game strong and pretty much whooped the opposition with a 40 point blowout, they were simply outplayed in every department and there was no mercy in that process. 

Some of my teammates and I stayed behind to watch the new teams that just started playing.  While watching them though, I couldn’t help develop a sense of insecurity and fear that our team was not possibly capable.  They had talent and cockiness to match and I just wondered “can we beat them?”.  However I heard my teammates laugh and make jokes  and how they would look forward to playing them and destroying them in the same process.  Then I realised, that we are the champions, and there’s no need to be fearful of any team or of anyone.  That’s the swagger you have to carry when you have been handed that title, and just have faith that you will get the job done when challenges arise.  I stood up, made my way to my car and swore to myself that whatever happened, I will be ready for that team when the time comes along with my teammates.

The reason why I brought this up is because it’s similiar to a situation that I am going through right now.  Just recently I met a wonderful woman, well make that a chick, since I actually called her a normal vietnamese chick to her face.  She giggled when I apologised since I didn’t exactly mean to call her that but she corrected me and said that she was a chick so what was I suppose to call her.  Anyways I am drifiting off from the subject here, but since meeting her, I have been asking various people on how to approach her and woo her.  There’s been some interesting responses such as:

1. Don’t show all your cards, be mysterious and play hard to get
2. Be honest and upfront, no time to be wasted here
3. Don’t do anything, just go along with the rideI

The funny thing is, that I’ve done this before and I have been in a relationship and know what to say and what to do.  Problem being is that because I been so out of it and haven’t really been in a relationship for so long, I’ve lost part of my confidence.  Like my basketball team, I shouldn’t think so much and just be confident that regardless of what I do, I will succeed in one way or another.  I still don’t know why I am thinking like a chump but what do you expect I am human after all.  Wish me luck in the journey ahead with the Vietnamese “chick”.

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