Hey Wanna Try A New Sport?

When you compete against someone, it’s great to win and be able to go home and pat yourself on the back for how awesome you are. When you compete against your roommate, it’s a different story. My roommate loves to play racquetball, a sport that I introduced him to. Earlier in the year, I had asked him if he wanted to go learn to play racquetball so that we could have a sport that we could play together in which neither of us has any particular advantage. The first time we went to play, not to toot my own horn or anything, but I absolutely destroyed him. I had played a few times at home and had a pretty good awareness of the court. I told my roommate it was no big deal and that, “I’m sure you’ll do better next time.” The following week, I didn’t see my roommate a whole lot, and I started to wonder where he had been sneaking out to for the entire week. The next weekend my roommate was finally back in our room, so I decided to ask him if he wanted to play a quick game of racquetball. He said, “Sure, I guess I could try and play again.”

            So we went to the IM building to go play. The last time we had played, the game started out very slow; this time, however, things were different. He was ready. He beat me; well to tell the truth, he completely annihilated me. Any confidence that I had in myself regarding athletic ability was completely gone. After he was satisfied with his victory, I asked him, “So where have you been all week?” He responded, “Practicing, of course. I’m really starting to like this game.” HE now is part of the IM league and has a chart of all of the ranked players that he hopes to defeat in the upcoming season. I created a racquetball junky.