A Bit of My Pastime

Posted by My World, My Rules at Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Literature has fascinated me from an early age. I read and write, read and write a lot. In fact, I won the 2nd place award for poem category in our English week way back when I was a fourth grader, and I am truly happy with it.


I really am an active child before. I repeat, BEFORE. 
I was always an active child before, yet all I need to settle down were good books. The worlds created from the pages within my mind were wondrous and amazing.


“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”           -- Albert Einstein



So here I am, unleashing the literary in me, letting my heart speak of thoughts more than my mind.


At the age of 10, I was awakened to the love of sports; more specifically, basketball. It is an all-time favorite sport among Filipinos as it is obvious on televisions, covered courts and even on vacant lots. 


I consider it as my hobby not only because I love playing it but also it does teaches lessons in life. It is my game, the game that portrays my way of living. 


Basketball isn't just a game of dribbling and shooting. Let's go deeper into its essence. It is a game of life; an interaction between allies and opponents, persuasions and hindrances. It is a game of mistakes on which we ought to minimize. Most of all, it is reality, a scenery without cuts or second trials. You can't tell the referee for a second chance after having committed a foul. That's life, it doesn't always offer second chances. Like a ball, it rolls over, sometimes you're down but remember that a ball is round. It gives fair chances to all. Time will come that you will be there, right on top, unreachable by others as what you used to dream of.


These two hobbies of mine, as what I think, is the perfect combination for having me considered as a sports editor of the prestigious Augustinan Herald, Colegio San Agustin-Biñan High School Department's official school paper.