Do you want to be a ball or a player?
Imagine a soccer field and a game going on. Two entities are very active in the field. One entity are the players and the second entity is the ball. Both are moving fast and very busy in their own style.
The players see the opposite goal into which they want to kick the ball. They focus on the ball at every moment. They keep on kicking the ball towards the opposite goal while preventing it from going into their own goal. They recognize the positions of their team mates at every moment and pass on the ball to them as needed.
Now look at the second equally busy entity, the ball. It is not sitting idle either. It is also moving all the time. But what a different kind of movement! The ball is waiting for some player to kick it. If no player kicks, it sits helplessly on the ground waiting to be kicked by a player. It knows no goal and has no capacity to choose its path.
Many of us get into the groove meant for a lifeless ball. We wait passively for someone or some circumstance to kick us in some direction. We feel we are helpless. But we are all born as players, living under the illusion of being balls.
Can we stop being a ball and act like a player, choosing a goal and creatively kicking the ball towards the goal, using every tiny opportunity, collaborating with the teammates?
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