Stuck In Motion
A lot of the time we feel we go round in circles. Not achieving and sometimes getting worse. A fear of irrelevancy. Golf is a useful analogy. Stuck in motion.
‘A sense of progress is always important, not because we feel we should be moving forward but because we don’t want to seen to not move at all.’
Look at the picture.
Not the picture of the picture.
But the image itself.
In this moment, a snapshot of life was taken.
The tree doesn’t flutter.
The cars don’t move.
The clouds dormant.
Everything is seemingly stuck in motion.
When we take pictures, we freeze memories and stop time.
Sometimes our lives can feel they are undergoing the same processes.
We’re not moving further away from our start place and haven’t moved at all.
Stuck in the middle of the line with no option of square one or leapfrogging the pack.
Sports provide an excellent analogy for this process.
Golf, the game of mental wit and physical prowess, can prove the grit of some individuals.
I’ve played golf for 12 years.
I’ve played off 5 handicap for 3 years.
I have fluctuated around this point for a number of years because my circumstances have changed, I play a lot less and I don’t practice.
Before I had the time to dedicate, now I have the time to contemplate ‘what could’ve been’.
It’s demoralising playing golf sometimes.
I don’t have the skill and wizardry that I once had.
It’s incredibly frustrating to play bad golf, especially when you have a decorated history with the sport.
The time for whining has passed.
The time for action is here.
But every time someone tries to take action and work on their golf, the motivation disappears or attention wavers.
It’s not prioritised as much as before.
It’s just for fun and not a career. It takes a backseat.
My recreation and enjoyment, my rest, it all is taken to one side and left to gather dust.
I feel I haven’t progressed (even got worse) in golf since 2015.
However, I don’t put too much weight on that so for me it’s not a big deal.
In our lives, we prioritise. Sometimes we wrongly prioritise.
When we put pressure on ourselves it’s sometimes to appease others rather than deal with our own situations.
We shouldn’t think in terms of life wasting away, just a new opportunity waiting to be found.
Stuck in motion.