How does a grandparent console his grandaughter when her team loses a big game? You cant. You can say words of wisdom, you can buy her a milk shake, you can do a million things, but the true lessons to be learned from an heartbreaking loss, must be experienced.
So much of life must be lived, no way around it. This wisdom applies to teenage grandaughters and 76 year old men. Each and every day is there for the learning and experience.
Each morning ask yourself, “What did yesterday teach me?”
I recall the ninth grade at LR Catholic, coming home from having played a basketball game against Conway, I think. My dad, Wilbur Armbrust, who had been quite a roundballer in his day (Coach Sam Hindsman at Arkansas Tech told me he considered dad one of the two best players in his day) asked, “How’d you do?”
“We lost,” I said.
“Well, you can’t win ’em all,” he said.
I looked at him.
“Why not?” I asked.
He smiled and didn’t respond, but I think he liked my reply.
Didn’t you win them all? W.