Grown Up Sports

Last night, I noticed Honey was just uneasy. I asked him about it this morning and he told me he was just mentally tired from everything. He has been busy with a lot of things and has to think of a lot of things even things that doesn't concern him directly. He was supposed to go biking with his friends early this morning, but since he slept around four in the morning already he had to call off to get more sleep. Luckily though, a friend of his informed him that there is going to be a basketball game later and Honey was cool about it, at least a little sports here and there could make him relax is what he said. I happened to marry a man that is so into sports, grown up sports. He likes to sweat it out and feel his muscles working. He plays football during the weekend too. There are lot of other sports out there that Honey could play as well like baseball for instance, given that he has playmates of course. He joins this group in Yahoo that gets together every weekend for a game but last I heard it was just a group of football enthusiasts in our area.


Talking about baseball, I mentioned it because I recall once we borrowed a Fever Pitch dvd in the library, it was a romantic comedy to feed my long time chick flick cravings. It was a story between a female who has a soaring career as an executive in a promising company and a plain male teacher who was but a Red Sox fanatic. The teacher was so annoyingly a fan of the Red Sox since childhood that he never missed a game or an event related to baseball since then. Furthermore, the teacher had his room full of baseball stuff ranging from his bedspread to his telephone to his wardrobe and all the you can imagine a crazy fan would have for the love of his patron team. He was crazily in love head over heels with this baseball team that he would give up almost everything, even to the expense of his girlfriend just to be physically present in the game. The teacher even had tickets that entitled him for exclusive seats for the whole of the baseball season. The love story started out fine until Miss Executive realized that her boyfriend's first love was baseball and not even her could change it, so she just had to deal with it the best way she can. I thought that maybe if the teacher guy have grown up a bit, maybe played a little baseball himself, the story of course would have been a smooth sail ride. I like the way the whole of America supports baseball, and the game really got me interested. Maybe I could give myself a little time to watch some baseball game once in a while.

Looking around, it is unfortunate how I see grown up guys who are crazily in love with their own version of sports they call indoor sports like playing with an X box 360, or keeping a PSP handy. There are guys I know, some are friends and some are family members, who competes with their children when it comes to playing video games. I personally don't have anything against it if they could just keep it in a low low and live up to the expectations of being a grown ups. Video games are cool I know, but if you sleep late just to finish a game, and if you have children, that would be terrible and that is just another story. Definitely sports is not what makes a man if they play just indoor sports! Why not play real sports?

My point is, good grown up sports could give positive energy and it insinuates positive outlook in life. Sports is an instant life coach. Honey for example as I noticed, keeps on developing a very positive outlook in life, and he plans everything, build a strategy and implement. He takes care of stuff at home and none of us even have to worry about anything anymore. In grown up sports, certainly there are rules that big guys or even big girls could apply in real life. After all, life is but a game, so better play it smart, right?