What is so difficult about Trying?

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Over the last few days, I have been playing basketball in my courtyard. It is nothing professional. It is just a recreational activity without a cemented court or rules. My mother had planned to tuck a basket at a good enough height at the anterior wall, and now I have been playing basketball, where my premium activity is to basket the ball without anyone snatching it away from my hands. 

Let me tell you a secret? It is very tiring. Almost equal to giving up. 

Every time I throw the ball above at it, the ball either gets hit on the wall and bounces back (not at me) at the other end of the yard. I would rush to catch it (without success) and run till the end of the fences where the ball had almost nowhere to go. I will take it back and try again and again it would get hit on the wall and push me to rush at some other direction. Tiring stuff. Fun yes, Tiring more. 


It was tiring, because I was trying. 

One of the hardest things about trying is that we feel we are not doing it. We are trying to do it. Doing is something that has a end and a formidable result. So, when you are making a pottery, and successfully 'doing' it, you have either made the base or by the third day would be at the neck of the vessel. When you are 'trying' to make a pottery, it means that your charkha is revolving, you are putting clay, water and everything but are failing to give it a shape. This means that every time you have to begin anew. 

But, trying is tiring because we tend to focus on the part that we did not make it. Seldom do we think that as many times we have tried and failed. it is equal to as many times we have practices the many ways it could have happened and we were not capable of doing it. So, trying is learning. The moment you begin to think that you are learning from the trials, it would not be tiring anymore.

You might wonder, what is so fascinating about trying! Well...

No student is ever tired of going to school for a decade or more. 
No athlete or competitor is ever tired of winning championships.
No singer is ever tired of riyaaz-ing the seven musical notes.
No human is tired of breathing. 

These tasks either give you a sense of purpose or a sense of recognition. Similarly, as long as you keep trying things that you cannot do, the approach should not be of "Oh! I could not do it today,". Rather it should be, that "I learned how to do it the next day".

So, what happened to my basket ball trial?

Day One- 10 minutes of trying. ZERO balls through the hoop.
Day Eleven- 3 minutes of trying and 10 baskets out of many attempts through the hoop. (I could also basket 4 balls in a row).



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