12/31/2023 0 Comments Sacred fire ministries![]() Everyone in the outfield moved in as if I was a girl. On two occasions, once in high school and once in college, I went with a friend or unit mate to try out for their softball team. It took giving everything, and then a little more, if possible, and ignoring all the snide comments and doubful looks. People stopped and took notice of me in any sport, since, being shorter, what I did was a greater accomplishment. I could touch the rim and in college, when having fun in the dorm parking lot where we set up a 9-foot rim, I could double-hand behind the back slam it, and I could cradle it and float from about 10 feet and dunk it. I could shoot with either hand, even three-pointers, and I could out-jump most anyone, except the very tallest. I could compete with those 8 to 10 inches taller than me, but over that, it required thinking outside the box. There are some shorter basketball players, but they are rare. Likewise, there were some sports even at which I excelled, such as in basketball though those who did not know me and had not seen me play, would simply imagine that there was no way that I could compete. THEN, after the game (especially if I had played for the OTHER team, they would come semi-sheepishly, semi-excited and ask if I wanted to play for them).Īround those who knew me, I was always one of the first chosen. If I went places where people didn’t know me, because I was short, they thought that I would be an inferior athlete (rather than the uncommonly exceptional one that I was), and I was usually picked nearest to last-UNTIL they saw me in action. (I had a finger for him! ha.! if I was that type of person which I was not: but I have a sense of humor). it was embarrassing not to be able to ride certain rides in early high school because I did not come up to the cartoon character!s finger. I myself was made fun of most of my life for being short. I didn’t say it loud for everyone to hear, but those nearby certainly hear it. ![]() Maybe he did not want pity or encouragement either or maybe he thought I was mocking him, being so used to it, he just assumed-wrongly (and without asking for clarification if he was confused). He acted like a rabid dog, without even thinking that I was not mocking him-I never had. of which he lacked as much as outer countenance. His response to me.? “Shut up Balaicius, you woman!” Wow. After he completed the chin ups and everyone else was mocking him, he walked by and I said, “Good job, _”. He was not a powerhouse, but physically able. ![]() one day at gym we had to qualify for pull ups and situps and such. everyone of course made fun of him (despite this being a Christian school). he looked even worse, 2 or 3 x worse, than this fellow. There was a kid a grade or two below me in high school. birth defects are not the only thing that can do such things, but so can disease and accidents. While certainly children should be properly raised not to make fun of such unfortunate people-by telling them, if you think such evil thoughts and behave so immorally God may MAKE YOU just like that person or worse. The solution is not to force the world at gunpoint to enter your delusion with you, but to make the best of the hand that you are dealt. It would be just as cruel for him to think of himself as normal. Such massive deformity is not merely a “birth mark”.
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