Ya know...

[charliesmum]

I've never understood the appeal of sport. I have often bewailed the fact that we as a society tend to make too big a deal over something that is nothing more than a game that tends to bring out the worst in people. Why, I would wonder, were the football players typically the stars in High School?* What, I wondered, is the big freaking deal? I was evolved past that. I was the sensitive artistic type and could see beyond the base competition.

So, tell me, why was I so excited when Charlie finally hit a ball during practise yesterday? I mean, I jumped up and cheered because my extremely bright and musically gifted son hit a ball with a bat and it didn't go into the foul line.






*Except possibly for mine. I mean, they may have enjoyed the typical BMOC thing one sees portrayed in film and TV, but my school was so big I never really noticed. I hung out with the artists and poets and was quite content, and wouldn't have recognized one of our cheerleaders unless I tripped over her Pom-Poms.

Comments

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

You were excited because he had an achievement that was positive :) Same way I'm thrilled for hours or days when Colin manages to tell a joke that's actually funny.

[zambonigirl.livejournal.com]

*breaks out band equipment and starts playing "Tequila"*

Go, Charlie! Go!

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

Because it's YOUR KID, doing something he wanted to do and doing it well. That's always enough.

[chavvah.livejournal.com]

We didn't have football or cheerleaders at my high school. I didn't realize people actually did that anymore, outside of the movies... okay, I'm being facetious. I did realize, but I was hoping that if I ignored it it would go away.

[jessii-6.livejournal.com]

Because it's Charlie. And you love him.
Didn't you cheer when he started to walk? I bet you did, even though it is reasonable to presume he would, right?
It's not sports, it's the irresistableness of Charlie :)

Now my highschool not only didn't have the cheerleaders, I'm pretty sure we weren't high on the levels of poets/artistic people too - unless you count the drunken poets. Than we had plenty