A Thought

As any of you that have read the blog know, I am still in high school. As a result, I was reading The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay when I read a marvelous quote that seemed oddly pertinent to our dream. For some context, the person who says this in the book is a nature lover. "Always in life, an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky. The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking; most people you when you are a young plant they are very dangerous." As I read it, all I could think of was all those who have scoffed at our dream and called it silly or ridiculous. It is true, most people in life will be vines to our dream.

It is true that our idea is very sapling at this point, as we have played only a mini-match together as a full team, but it also says that that is when the sapling is most vulnerable. So if we can feed our sapling enough nutrients as hard work, and sunlight as belief, this sapling can burst through the canopy into greatness.

So when we take the ice tonight to face Team Sammis, we are growing our sapling ever taller, trying to reach the sunrise in Pyeongchang

-Connor