Life defining moments

looking out my window just gives me inspiration. its like the window to the outside world where everything is happening while i'm seating here where time stands still. have you ever had those life defining moments? the ones where you were extremely happy and nothing else comes to ur mind but just that moment of happiness. or the one where you were so sad that you felt that everybody and everything in the whole wide world is against you. when that split second decision determined the course of your life today? and then there are the ones that escaped you. the ones where you wanted to do something about but didn't have the guts to do it. i'm sure everybody has experienced this before. now since this is my blog, you're going to have to listen to my stories. :) there are so many that i can remember and to tell them all in detail would take days. but since i have time, in spite of my assignments, i think this will be the topic of my next few blogs. so lets start with one of the most happiest moments in my life. i was in form 2 or form 4 at the time and my friends and i were in a football competition between classes. as our class were the science class, we were considered the "smart class" (i'm trying to be modest) so as like many science classes, there were many nerds including me and few talented sportsmen excluding me. hehe... so we were playing the arts class and this particular class were perhaps the most notorious class in the school and they had the most number of school team players in their class. you know God is pretty fair, if you have brains you don't have brawns, and vice versa. so here we were standing on the field with 11 of the most buffly dudes in the whole form looking at us puny nerds with a smirk that says that they're going to wipe the floor clean with us. if you've played any competition, you would know that there is no such thing as a "friendly" and you might think that this is just a simple game of ball kicking but it meant the world to us as well as our opponents and there was no holding back. so we went at it with all that we've got. going in to the tackles with no second thoughts. getting up immediately to chase after the ball even after the most crunching tackles. now that is a game of football unlike what we see on TV nowadays. our opponents were taken by surprised as we scored the first goal of the game. i don't really remember how we scored that goal but it made our opponents move up a gear. our players were taken down one after another but luckly non was seriously injured. with all the barrage we soon succumbed and conceded a goal. 1-1 the score read and time was running out. if we went into penalties it would mean that we would certainly lose as our unfortunate goalie was a small bloke and we didn't want him to be the target of balls fired from those big thighs. so we pushed on. now here comes one of my best memories, one that has been with me ever since that significant day when David met Goliath. i got the ball from midfield and played a sweet one two passing right through the defence and there i was running with the ball with only the goalkeeper between me and the goal. now i can still remember this goal keeper because he was the size of a gorilla and looked like one. with the defence right behind me and the keeper running towards me i felt like a piece of cheese in between 2 big brown breads. just a couple of feet away the keeper slid in for a tackle with his legs spread out wide to block the ball. and just as he did it, i shot the ball. the ball went right through his legs, under his body and into the awaiting goal. if u asked me whether i planned the shot before hand i would say no. it was that split second decision. as the ball went in the keeper took me down and i didn't had the chance to see it cross the line. but as i got up i heard the wild screams of my team mates and with a dazed but triumphant look i raised a fist in the air. as i was engulfed by my team mates no thoughts came to my mind only the delirious happiness that a kid experiences when he scores the most important goal in his life to date. the delirious happiness of a kid who for a moment was the king of the world. that moment still haunts me till this day as now other goal can compare to that and thus every goal i've scored since then has left me emotionless. if that is the price to pay for scoring that goal, i would happily pay it. anyway it makes me look cool when i walk away after scoring a goal. :) so here is today's life lesson, life is like being a striker in a football game. you shoot at the goal many times during the course of the game and sometimes u score and sometimes u don't but you have to just keep trying because thats what you're here for. i guess it means that in life you make important, life changing decisions all the time and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't. but you can't shy away from it cos its your life and what your life is tomorrow is the result of your decisions today.