Sunday, March 23, 2008
Haha hey B'Div. =)
There was something I was thinking of a while ago, when I was thinking of SRCs and trainings and SRCs and lack of trainings. I don't like to admit that I'd been thinking it. But I'd been losing faith. Losing faith in us, and what we could do; how we could've done it, but never did.
I don't know if any of you've had that feeling before. Or are having it now. This is something a friend said to me, though, that changed all those thoughts I was having. and even though it's not perfect, it's something I really wanna share with you guys. =)
(haha it's edited ok)
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I don't think [having match nerves] something you should be blamed for.
But... if it happens, try not to let it affect the rest. (Not game-wise, but in terms of mentality.)
The thing is... What will be will be.
Sometimes thinking more into it just ruins what should happen. Right now, you all are still training right?
What's that training for?
Your training time is limited, it's true, but if you don't believe it'll happen, there's no point in training.
Something I feel before every difficult game, is how everyone had spent a sleepless night thinking about the game, worrying about what might happen; worried about the outcome,
but when the team
sits together just before the match
and tell each other "hey we can do it"
it's a sense of security
like "hey, the rest are confident, i should be too"
so what happens is, while we're all unsure about what's going to happen when we were thinking about as individuals... when we come together, it's a totally different story. That's the whole point of encouragement. If you want to put it strangely... it's like the whole team is lying even though they're afraid. But because of that, everyone becomes more confident.
That's why, even if you're nervous,
or just plain scared to death,
never show it.
for that's something a team player will have to do;
shut out any form of negativity.
Don't let others be affected by it.
And at the same time, it's always important to trust one another.
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Haha I know sounds so pep-talk right xD
But I think it's worth something.
Like... before a game it's natural to tell one another how nervous we are. (In my case, super, super scared.) Maybe that's what's getting to us? (Maybe it's happens unconsciously.) In any case I'm not going to do that again. Even if we're nervous/scared/we didn't have a good day/we're tired cos we didn't get enough sleep; even if we can't help what we're feeling at that point, we shouldn't show it on our faces. I think what's said up up there is quite true, cos I think when I see everyone with un-high/happy faces before a match (meaning not the faces we saw during the SRCs TK game), I feel down too.
We know what we can do.
So let's just go all out.
...So that's what I wanted to say. =) I also want to say that whatever happens, we're still the best team I know, and I love you all very very much. =)
<3leen
softcookies!