:help: Sorry, just a rant for those of you out there who sympathsize with my college swimming experience..
Okay, I have not spoken to my coach since his comment after my 100free at championships regarding the fact that I don't have any heart, and thats why I am swimming poorly. I can't imagine saying that someone doesn't have heart, when they've given sweat, blood and tears to the sport all in one season. If I wasn't caring that I was stinking, then maybe it would be reasonable to say I didn't have heart, but I was miserable and trying anything to improve my season...so that annoyed me, and I didn't talk to him for the rest of the meet, and haven't talked to him since.
Got an e-mail today that he is making it mandatory that we attend 3 practices a week with him, from now till the end of the semester.
#1. it has been 3 months since championships==why now?
#2. This is the most hectic time of the semester for EVERYONE
#3. I don't want to swim with him in the off season, which is why I am doing masters
:( Miserable in Albany
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I believe, Morgan, you have a simple choice: yes I want to swim on the team, no I want to quit.
The difficulty is taking the long-term view: will I be happy in my decision tomorrow, next month, six-months from now, 5-years from now?
You and others can speculate all you want about what your coach meant when he said you didn't have heart. The only way to find out for sure is to ask him.
I like a quote from what concentration camp survivor, Vicktor Frankl, wrote in Man's Search for Meaning, he says this: "...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
So, choose your attitude, choose your own way. Good Luck. --mjm
I believe, Morgan, you have a simple choice: yes I want to swim on the team, no I want to quit.
The difficulty is taking the long-term view: will I be happy in my decision tomorrow, next month, six-months from now, 5-years from now?
You and others can speculate all you want about what your coach meant when he said you didn't have heart. The only way to find out for sure is to ask him.
I like a quote from what concentration camp survivor, Vicktor Frankl, wrote in Man's Search for Meaning, he says this: "...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
So, choose your attitude, choose your own way. Good Luck. --mjm
