Let me take you back...it was the summer of 2006. For the first time EVER, the Dallas Mavericks were in the NBA finals. I am a lifelong basketball fan, and fan of Dallas pro sports. I have been a fan since the days of Ro Blackman, Mark Aquirre and Roy Tarply so I have some "fan capital" built up in the Mavs. In 2006, I was pretty pumped, but understandably skeptical...
In a matter of moments, the Mavs were up 0-2 and Laura Miller was planning parade routes in downtown Dallas. My skepticism dissipated significantly, and to celebrate I ponied up some cash and bought myself a Dirk Jersey...that haven't won a NBA finals game since...and it's all my fault!
Flash forward to October, 2010...the Rangers beat the hated Yankees for the first time EVER and were headed to the World Series for the first time EVER! I have been a fan of the Rangers since the days of Inky, Nolan Ryan, Ruben Sierra, and Pudge. Its time for a new Rangers shirt...and you know the rest of the story.
Why oh why must I be so cosmically significant in the world of sports? Why do I have to worry about my garb at Tech football games? Why must I stay silent about a no hitter while watching it on T.V.? What a curse I live under...
Of the twelve of you who actually read my blog; about half of you now officially know I am crazy...what the heck is he talking about? The rest of you are blaming me for those two monumental melt downs and have cleared your conscience for your cosmically significant snafu and can now blame me! You're welcome.
Why oh why do we feel the need to matter beyond our day to day existence? Is work and raising children not significant enough? Why does my life have to change Dirk's jumper or cause Josh Hamilton to strike out? News flash people! You are missing the boat on cosmic significance:
Gabe and Graham:
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? ~Matthew 6: 25-27
Translation: Dirk Nowitzki might not consider you cosmically significant; but God does!
