Senior Season, Can't Appreciate the Gifts God Has Given?

Well, all is said and done with the 2009-10 Georgia Tech Football Season. And to tell the truth we had a great run. Won the ACC Championship and went to the Orange Bowl even though we lost in the bowl and lost to UGA this year it was still a good year. But honestly I'm already missing it. The crazy thing is when you are in the midst of the season you can't stand how much of your time it truly takes up. Ask any college football player how downright bad the season gets. You don't have time for much other than school work and football because what spare time you do have you are normally trying to catch up on rest and take it easy. People at Georgia Tech often get it misconstrued, you athletes have the good life and you guys have it made. Well let me tell you from the perspective of a walk-on who was at one time a normal student before a student athlete. There is no comparison at all, playing ball and trying to get passing grades is damn near impossible especially at our school. Yeah our dining hall is nicer but students can purchase meal plans over there instead of the regular dining halls so you can't complain...Pay the extra I did. Yeah we get free GT stuff, but guess what you use alot/most of it to work out in so it's provided for a purpose. Not just to wear around and show off. And yeah most of the players are in an easier major because you don't understand the mental exhaustion that comes along with playing. Getting prepared for games learning your playbook and adjustments for each game can be a task all it's own. Plus you are up from sun up until sundown (6am workouts 8am start off class and a full schedule until 2:30pm meetings 4:00 pm practice then dinner @ 6:30pm) That doesn't even include any school work just going to classes and your sports obligation. But that is not the purpose of this post so I'll move on from this. I'm just documenting the drain you go through as a student athlete and that I went through since I've been here.

The main focus is that with all this going on I was still blessed enough to be in this position but that did not really appreciate it. I found a way to complain though my season. And now that it is over and may be my last football season ever, though I still will be training for PRO Day so I can get a look from the scouts, I am starting to miss it and regret how I approached things. I mean I enjoyed things but I had no reason to complain because the struggle of it all was a blessing and was something I loved to do. I mean things didn't go the way I wanted them to as far as my playing time but it was still a gift from God. But this makes me think how many of God's gifts do we squander and make light of. I mean so what your apartment heat sometimes blows out cooler air than it should, you have a roof over your head and a luke warm apartment, there are people on the street which would love that much. So you can't buy filet mignon and the finer foods, it's people that don't know what their next meal is coming from and when they will get it. We look light on what we have been blessed with and take it for granted that it should just be that way. It's not until you lose something or are down on your luck that you really appreciate things. And I guess that moments comes for me with the ending of my senior football season. Like I said it could be it and it bothers me that I did not FULLY appreciate all that I had until it was over. So take my advice appreciate what God has blessed you with I already learned that with women and relearned my lesson with football. So be thankful for what you got because you aren't entitled to it, it's a blessing and as quick as it was given to you, it could be taken away.

P.S. I'll be blogging about my training for pro day stuff in about a week or so getting the last of my partying out my system. Going to go through the fire to prepare myself for what comes in the hopes that I can make it to the next level. Wish me luck and even more important pray for me that God gives me the strength to press on and the opporunity to show what I can do.