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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 d...

Winning doesn't make you a Demi God

We all know a few people in our world, who always know what somebody meant, and what someone intended.  They are very confident about it. So confident that they often overlook what somebody said and what someone meant. For them, the moment you had said the first five words of a sentence, they had known the entire conversation. Alongwith why you said and how you said things. And in case, they are demi-gods they'll judge your previous actions and predict your future as well.  This confidence is self destructive.  You can be right. But not all the time. And being unable to accept this is self destructive. Now a person can make you feel a 'certain way'. That 'certain way' you felt might not be the 'approached way'. And that's fine. Feelings do not have grammar or parameters. I always believe this. Feelings are not calculative. But then when you unhear the other person and impose your feelings as a judgement, that is self destructive.  How? The other person m...