Life Lessons from Live Premiership
Gbenga Fatogun
Official Blogger, Gamen11
I am looking forward to two watching two matches this week, one is Champions league Chelsea and Intermilan tie; I choose to pitch my camp with Inter, I hope they are able to unscrew the bolts at Stamford Bridge. Then there is the Premiership blockbuster, Liverpool versus Manchester United on Sunday. I imagine that Vidic would pretend to sick after training on Friday, in a bid to avoid having to face fast paced Fernando Torres again. Typical of Liverpool, they bring down the walls of Jericho and then lose against Ai; I would not be surprised if they succeed in making United feel like they aren’t that good after all.
Last weekend I was occupied with some house chores, I barely even knew the fixtures. The senate had resolved that I was next in position for the “Acting Cook and Caretaker” of the house since my mum wasn’t around. I tried a couple of experiments in the kitchen, most of them worked except for one. But I had some spare time on Sunday enough to watch the Fulham- Manchester United match. Though I had wanted to stay back at home to practice some sax scales, but it took a call to remind me that my premiership yarn is now being published weekly on Gamen11. Like every writer who gets a sense of fulfillment knowing that somebody somewhere reads his work, I felt very good. At that I dropped my saxophone, and like a reporter covering the earthquake in Haiti for CNN I dashed down to my viewing centre.
I knew I had missed the first half of the encounter, but half pie would do. As I walked to the viewing centre, which is about a 10minutes walk from my abode, I began to think about how interesting and fulfilling life would be if we focused our efforts on doing the things that brought us joy and we also had the innate ability to do. If what is work to me, is to seat in the comfort of my room, with my laptop, and scribble down a few words. Just like Mary Howards in the movie who loved crossword puzzles and built a career a Crossword constructor for a local daily. That’s simply what she enjoyed doing, it made her happy. It’s probably what Malcolm Gladwell , author of Outliers, meant when he said that, “It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether our work fulfills us.”
I bet that Drogba, Pato, Asharvin, and the rest of the other guys are enjoying their career. Of course, there would be a few who are not. What a different Nigeria we would have if people would dare enough to do what they are naturally endowed to and not what the society tells them to. In time I got to “Old Trafford” only to realize that the match wasn’t broadcasted. As I write now, I still don’t know how the match ended. What I know is that inspirational writing is work to me and it brings loads of fulfillment, what about you?
