Sport
Don’t BOX Me In! Inside the Coach’s box of Coach Trisha Stafford-Odom
TSO: You just make me sound good.
CR: I sung cadence for a civilian, and the look in the eyes was of one who wanted to cry. I tell you that, not because I sung cadence. I hate it, but having someone knowing that when I loved it, I did it a lot, and now they want me to do it.
I’m actually shy, until I’m comfortable. However, to make me talk is to ask about my core. Adapt and Overcome does indeed mean two different things.
T.S-O! and I can chop it up all day but even we know when to turn fun into life. Meaning, here I am about to tell the entire world what I think Adapting and Overcoming means. I HATE SINGING. I’m a somewhat ok musician. About to write a score now that will take marching band……….. My bad! Imagine being put on the spot. Having to do something for someone you barely even know and you say no. And they insist. And you, as Marines say, “Suck it up,” and do it. When I sung just a small bar of cadence to the Alabama native, I felt nothing; jolted, of course, because it’s been over a year since.
However, I, Chris Reese, felt nothing. I adapted to the territory of a little stage fright. I dont like to sing, and I didn’t want to sound horrible and shame my brothers and sisters in arms. So I adapted and did it.
Yet, what did I overcome? Is it not in every form of living that we overcome something?
Actually, right there is the overcome: The memory. The statistic implanted in my mind. The fact that I did something that will stand. Experience isn’t the overcoming: Taking those lessons, making them second nature, and having experience as your work ethic is the overcome.
