When life throws you a curve ball, what do you do with it?
It is an anomaly, not necessarily bad just unexpected. Everyone sees the fastball coming, but the curve... it requires finger placement. A good pitcher can laugh while you stare the pitch down, waiting to destroy it- straight into right field... and then grin with satisfaction when he sees that moment of realization.
In that split-second, you see it. You can't quite believe that fastball has morphed so convincingly, and is currently plummeting whilst you are mid-swing.
You aren't quite quick enough to react and save that last strike from pushing you further into the grip of OUT!
You know that if that red-laced, round-faced, little ingrate that has nothing but stitches holding it together could talk, it would be belittling, deriding, and discrediting all those hours of excruciating practice, dedication and persistent toil.
Which further infuriates you. The ump yells OOOOUUUUUUTTTTT! You throw down your Louisville Slugger in disgust, turning to him -in his not so infinite wisdom- and scream, kick, and curse your way to being thrown out. Never mind that this little tantrum is going to have repercussions, you don't care. Its not fair. Not fair that something that was so perfect could then be questioned, glanced at, and then forced from your grasp.
You can convince yourself later that you didn't care about that pitch, that out. Everyone knows that is a lie. But its fine.
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Because one can learn to hit a curve/slider, splitfingered fastball or cutter, the ? one may ask is what happens when life throws you a gyroball? What happens when life throws you something that isn't scientifically possible, that is a myth only alive in comic books? When life throws you something that you didnt believe existed until now? THen what? My answer is ........I love you
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