It's Just a Game

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It's Just a Game

Often you don’t realize how much something means to you until it’s gone. Maybe it’s your first baseball hat, the Boston Red Sox one with the rip in back and the faded lettering, that you finally out grew. Or Grandpa Joe, he read you the comics every Saturday as you sat on his lap, who grew too old and passed on. Sure it was your favorite hat and of course you loved your grandpa, but for some reason in order to fully capture their importance, you first had to lose them.

It’s a little depressing to think in this way. It might even make you want to avoid forming a close relationship with Grandpa Joe, so that once he’s gone you don’t have to deal with the sudden realization of how much he really meant to you. But, if you really think about it, having your favorite baseball hat while it still fits and having your grandpa around probably outweighed the feelings of loss once they were gone. But the idea that realization sometimes comes after a loss is very true. While your grandpa was still alive you devoted your time to just enjoying his company, but now that he has passed you spend your time remembering the good times you had. This is a reasonable and natural thing to do and it’s also the reason why you had never thought about how much you loved your grandfather until you can no longer sit on his lap and read the comics. You were just too busy having a good time with him to ever think about.

So, what if you had the chance to give your grandpa the gift of immortality but you would never truly realize how much you really loved him ­ would you do it? Maybe the baseball hat is a better example since it doesn’t involve human life. Would you want to have that hat forever but never really know how much it meant to you? Well, I tried to apply this to a situation in my life, and I really couldn’t decide ­ I needed a combination of both.

My most powerful experience with this “realization phenomenon” came after my final high school basketball

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