I play pool competitively in the toughest competition in the country. It's not a team sport. Each shot is you alone, against the balls and the table. One thing you learn quickly is that the real opponent is yourself. Everyone who loves what they do and practices and has some natural talent, has a game inside them, the game where you know you have shut up the voices in your head telling you you're going to fail or that you need to rethink the shot again, that somehow this time it's different from the other times you got this shot because this is the shot the whole game hinges on. The game where you let go and play your natural game, where all your talent comes to bear, where win or lose, you did your best and you can be proud.
Like pool, everything is never completely certain OR completely uncertain, life is a continuous series of approximations and by learning the true nature and extent of those approximations you learn about life itself
