Can You Sleep at Night?

Is it just me, or is the bull crap these days surrounding travel ball getting completely out of hand. The last few years I have personally witnessed sponsors paying off parents to have their kid play on a team, while making others pay to be on the team. I hear and see coaches fighting on the field, coaches cheating in games with illegal players, or better yet coaches just borrowing players once another team got eliminated from a tournament. Heck I even hear whole teams are now getting bought. I read on AL.COM that someone mentioned about putting their team on E-Bay for goodness sake, I think they were kidding but I hope you see my point.

Hey don’t get me wrong if someone offered my daughter a full ride I would take it in a heartbeat, BUT only to a college of her choice. See for me, life is too short and my daughter’s moral up bringing is too important for me to put a price tag on it or hang a for sale sign on her. People think money can buy happiness, friends and one hell of a softball team. To those who feel that way I wish them the best money can buy. For me, I will just do it the old fashion way with hard work, lots of help from good people and be thankful for a loving wife of 15 years, 2 wonderful kids who are growing up with Godly morals and ethics and people I call friends because all I have to offer them in return is my friendship and from time to time a grilled steak by Iron Chef Rin.

I often wonder why so many adults are on anti-depressants or take sleeping pills or drink excessively? My 1st thoughts are that they must be travel ball softball parents or coaches……just kidding. But seriously maybe it is because they have problems that at the end of day they simply can’t deal with. It is hard to sleep at night when you cannot even be honest with yourself. When you live your life lying and/or cheating, you find it hard to trust anyone and become extremely paranoid of those who are around you and sadly begin trusting those who care nothing about you.

As I have mentioned before I write from my own experiences and personal accounts of events as I have witnessed them throughout my life. I share my thoughts in the hopes to positively affect someone’s life like so many have touched and continue to touch mine. I am no saint and struggle daily to be a better person than I was the day before, but when the day has come to an end I am glad I have true friends who accept me for who I am and support me anyway for I enjoy a good night sleep.