Life 101

Yesterday was humbling. Yesterday I learned a lot about myself. Yesterday, reality set in. It wasn't pretty. Yesterday I shanked 4 wedges, yesterday I lost 6 golfballs. Yesterday, I shot 101.
Granted, the course was tough, and the winds were howling, but I haven't been north of 100 strokes, since my teens. I didn't have a case of the slices or hooks. I wish it were that simple. I went left, right, and wrong. It was brutal... and educational.
When dealing with such a sobering round of golf, many things go thru your mind. You want to pout, but don't. You want to throw your clubs, but don't. You want to quit, but don't. Why not?
For one: my dad drove from Sarnia to play. two: I've only played 6 times this year. And three: it's just a game. So, I grit my teeth and grinded it out right to the end. And in hindsight, it turned out to be one of the most rewarding rounds of golf in my life.
...and my life seems to be in a similar state as my golf game. My head tells me that I'm still an 8 handicap, but my game proves to be otherwise. Same as my life. I'm not where I was. I'm not where I want to be. Those things have been hard to swallow these last few weeks. But after my round of golf, I learned that you can't dwell. My ball is not in the middle of the fairway, it's in the tall grass. But I can see it, and more importantly, I can still see the green.
Life 101 is this: If you're not where you want to be, grind it out until you are. And to prove my point...
I finally found my swing and hit my best drive of the day on the very last hole. The ball landed 265 yards down the middle and it bounced through the fairway and into a creek. Undeterred, I dropped another ball and hit a seven iron over a lake, thru a 30 mile an hour crosswind, and stuck it 10 feet from the pin and made par with a penalty stroke.
This great golf tale has been made possible by a guy who doesn't quit.