Rugby League State of Origin (or Origin as its locally known) was once again fought out this week and finally won by NSW after eight gruelling years in which Queensland Maroons had gleefully taken home the prize. Eighty five thousand fans packed out the Sydney Olympic Stadium to see New South Wales Blues win the second game in a three game series.
The participants are regular combatants in the national (NRL) competition playing for individual clubs. So while the fitness and skillsets are remarkably similar, the winner must really exert a certain will to win. The Queensland team has been said in this decade to have a mortgage on 'passion'. But this week NSW dragged themselves from a demoralised eight years; a situation that could easily have become a decade without the spirited revival we saw this week.
What was the catalyst in the reversal? It is hard to tell why "winning is a habit" and "losing is a habit" as we so often hear in sporting circles. However what this highlights is that something special has to really happen to take a psyche from downtrodden to be ...dominant! Whatever it is if you could bottle it ...you could sell it! for heaps!!!
Serendipity
Since going my own way
I do ok
but I can at times relapse
Today the crossword I do each morn'
Was the trigger to such a collapse
The early clues began this slide:
'regret, loss and ...falling'
No matter
what I did from there
The trend just kept on forming
Words like 'rejection' and 'scorn'
Provide for further fuel
While...
'promise, growth and ...hope'
Point towards renewal
Progressively though
my eye was drawn
To the 'mystery word of the day'...
An eleven letter teaser...
That steered my thoughts away
After much 'to-ing and fro-ing'
Addressing thoughts absurd
It seemed to me
without question at all
'Serendipity'
was surely that word
I note that this is a term
related to 'sudden joy'
A state of mind
I must say
not felt since I was a boy
It struck quite a chord
I must admit
In looking beyond the 'mundane'
to truly envisage a richer life
built on a 'serendipitous' plane
The sound of children playing
A reassuring vibe
Suddenly reminding you...
"yes I am alive!!!"
Life is jellybean colors
Fireworks in the sky
A silvery beam is shining
Out of a wondering eye
They say ...we set our goals
far short of what we presume
Instead if we were to
'shoot for the stars'
We might just
'hit the moon'
Forwarded from my Iphone - Grahame J Flynn
