I grew up around basketball. It's really the only sport I know anything about. In Tilden you see, we're one of the few schools in Texas that do not have football. So I have always been a basketball guy.
Kara Lawson is the women's basketball coach at Duke University. I saw this shared on my feed and wanted to share it here. Her message is a good one: it ain't going to get easier.
"We all wait in life for things to get easier. ... It will never get easier. What happens is you handle hard better. That's what happens. Most people think that it's going to get easier. Life is going to get easier. Basketball is going to get easier. School is going to get easier. It never gets easier. What happens is you become someone who handles hard stuff better. ... And if you think life when you leave college is going to all of a sudden get easier because you graduated and you got a Duke degree, it's not going to get easier. It's going to get harder. So make yourself a person that handles hard well."
This applies to more than just playing sports that's for sure.