The road not traveled

I was watching football Sunday and got to thinking, as I sometimes do, about choices I made in life and how things might have been different had I followed one path instead of another. For instance, what if I had thrown myself into the pursuit of football with as much fervor as I did academics? I had plenty of size to be a defensive back, and was faster than most offensive linemen. My throwing arm was a lot better than that of your average linebacker, and I had considerably more smarts than most defensive linemen. Finally, the level of respect I had for the game far surpassed what you find with most of today’s elite wide receivers.

And I threw it all away to be a brainiac debater. [sigh] So close, yet so far away….

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