Got my first ever 3-point shot!!! (a random update)

I got my first 3-pointer ever!

(In case you don’t play or follow basketball, a 3-pointer is a shot taken from this D area, and it requires considerable strength to get the ball that far :P)

I have played basketball most of my childhood, was on the school team and we played some interschool competitions, and I was one of the shooters for the team. But I never could get the ball far enough to score a 3. I was a decent shooter from within the D, but never had enough power to get it all the way from behind the line (as far as I remember).

Until today!

So I stepped onto the basketball court after months, and while we were casually shooting, Abhishek asked me to try 3-pointers. And my initial reaction was, ‘no point I would never get one in’. He insisted I try anyway. And the rest is history.

Reminded me of something I had read – “Your failure rate will be 100% if you do not try at all”. I hadn’t actually even tried a 3-point shot for years (not kidding), because I just believed I can’t do it. Funny how our mind limits us even before our body does.

Trying is step 1 to getting something. That, and the fact that I’ve gained considerable muscle mass recently xD.

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(Some additional, tangential rambling)

I love sports, and it is so sad that I do not make much time for it. Those closest to me know how happy any form of physical, out-doorsy activity makes me. It’s a task to get my lazy ass to the gym, there’s always a hundred reasons to not go, in that moment. But the days that I do push through that initial resistance and drag myself out of the house, God knows I thank myself for it. Every single time.

And so it’s baffling to me that, despite knowing how much I love something, I still have resistance to doing it. After all, unlike a lot of people, I do not find workouts a chore, I find them exciting. I love pushing myself through every rep. I started from near zero strength, but I am slowly building myself up towards one full push up and one full pull up, and I love seeing my progress (no matter how small) week after week.

It feels that I spend so much of my time and energy doing things I ‘need to do’ (i.e. going to college) that I don’t have time and energy for stuff that I actually ‘want to do’.

I am struggling on a daily basis to find a balance between the two, but so far it’s just been a struggle.

Thoughts/suggestions/help??

(ramble over, for now)