...but who hasn't?

So I was thinking about this World Cup business, mildly irritated about the whole thing; until I realised that I was kind of looking at it from sort of a dick head perspective.

Initial thoughts:

- My facebook status feed has just been spammed by people who are commenting on how the game just went, most of these people don't care about football and neither do I, I can see right through them.
- If your country won the World Cup why would that be a big deal to you? It's a game, someone won, you have no interaction with the players or any of the effort that went into the outcome of the game and you get the thought of knowing that the country you live in won a competition.
- Where does the 'we lost' come from, who is we?! I know I certainly didn't play, did you?!
- I don't particularly like football but if there's a game on I guess I'll watch it because what else is ever on TV these days?

But thinking about it, if a Country you are a part of won the competition then I think a person from there has the right to be proud, the players are considered an elite team of the best from the Country and even if you don't play football or watch it or even care about it these people won for you and millions of other people. I'm starting to see why, although I don't find it particularly interesting, it's considered to be such a beautiful game.

I had some nice memories of playing football.

Some of the memories were me at football training on Saturday mornings pretending I was ill so I could go home and play whatever new game I had for my playstation, or sat on the field somewhere picking daisys because I couldn't go home and didn't want to play... why was I even there? But some of the other memories were those about a bunch of primary school kids, including myself, running around a small football designated area of a playground where one of the goals was at a right angle to the other and the ball would constantly get kicked onto the field and a teacher had to go fetch it because kidz aren't allowed on the field. Swarms of people running after the ball together, no one with any concept of tactics, whilst a few others maybe hung around the nets and kicked the ball in if it came near them. I was always in goal because everyone else didn't like touching the ball with their hands and gloves were unheard of.

Eventually we got basketball and I started playing that instead with a few other people. There were two nets, but they were on the other side of the playground where everyone who didn't play football would stay, so it was impossible to have an actual game, so adolescent creativity would take its toll and impossibly hard to understand games were made up where if you felt like winning you could pretty much make up a reason why you have more points and you just had to make sure you could disagree with someone for longer than they could disagree with you (and yet people take this mentality through their teenage years with the popular internet expression 'no u'). But a game I really liked was hot seat, which was one I brought back from a holiday I went on, you pretty much took it in turns to shoot for the net and if you could score before the person in front of you could then they were out. It was a very tribal game, you wouldn't want anyone you weren't friends with to come and play because well, kids don't really understand the value of conradary and friendship.

There were always people who were there to ruin the game, referencing back to the world cup, players who pretend they're hurt just to get an extra free kick or penalty or whatever because playing honestly is apparently difficult. That was one of my reasons why I didn't like football, but by that logic it's just a reason to dislike anything, you could say you hate videogames because people hack on them to ruin it for other people; which after putting into those terms which I can relate to, just seems silly.

If other people like something, I don't see how it could be any of my business to ruin it for them. I don't see why people would preach how bad something is unless they were specifically asked about it or just want to discuss it with people who potentially feel the same way, unless they're just a dick...

...I have some reflection to do on that.

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