Feeling That Love For Soccer Again

In my previous blogs I talked about how I started to lose my interest in soccer towards the end of my high school years.  I feel like I started to lose my interest because my team was horrible and always lost, no one took it seriously, and I felt like no one in my school cared about women's soccer.  I remember there were some games during my senior year where I didn't even want to play a game or where I dreaded playing a game.  Now that I think about it, I actually do miss soccer.  I miss having something to do all the time after school and actually representing a team.
I started playing intramural 3 v 3 soccer for FSU and doing that made it really hit me that I missed soccer so much.  Playing on the intramural team was definitely different than playing in high school because the intramural team was taken even less seriously than my high school team. It's not that my intramural team is bad, but its just not the same as high school soccer where I actually had practices, official referees, and could even end up in the newspaper from time to time.
This is not to say that I don't enjoy playing intramural soccer because I really do.  Although it does not give me the full experience that I used to get when I played soccer, it gives me the chance to get out there and reconnect with a sport that used to be a major part of my life.

Something That I'm Following

Something that I read recently that interests me is the incident that occurred with Jovan Belcher who is a starting linebacker of the Kansas City Chiefs.  Belcher, who is 25 years old, shot the mother of his three month old child with both Belcher's mother and child watching.  Shortly after shooting the mother of his child, Belcher hopped in his car and went to a practice session for the Chiefs.  Belcher barged into the practice, thanked his head coach and manager, and shot himself in the head right there in that moment in front of them.  Even after all of this happening, the Chiefs continued with their plans of practicing and preparing for their game that was coming up on Sunday.  It shocked me that not only Belcher committed such acts, but also that the Chiefs planned on continuing to play when their player did such a thing.  It was even more shocking that out of all the people Belcher could have spoken to for his last words, he went to whom he looked up to in football.  This incident just shows how people are able to put football essentially in front of life.