Well, a culmination of unfortunate circumstances amounted in me missing Nationals, again, last weekend. I was banking on getting a buddy pass from my uncle who works for Continental, but, when the only flight I could have taken to get to Madison was down to having only two seats left with one day left, I just stopped caring and told him not to worry. He was pretty convinced I could make it there, but would be on stand-by and would have to take another flight home, requiring me to miss Monday at school, and breaking my only chance at perfect attendance this year. I was basically left with the option of spending $1200 for a guaranteed spot on the plane, or risking not getting on, on the way home at all. But, I simply had the attitude of "I am not going to win, so why even go?" This probably isn't the right attitude as 96.4% of the people (1023 of 1061) who go to Nationals don't win. Either way, having two back to back off days racing in Chicago didn't help my reasoning. And then I didn't go to Nationals.
0 comments:
Post a Comment