“tomorrow you should go cross country running by yourself since I will be still at work.“ I told my son last night.
“but it will rain tomorrow afternoon.”
“oh, really? You checked the weather forecast?” I said with disappointment，since I was sure he did.
“Yes.” He answered quietly without putting any emotions in the words, but I knew inside he is happy about this. Raining is a good excuse of not running.
But this morning, I have a different idea of this. Yes, the running tryout will still be on, he will be disapointment about it!the soccer, the football games he used to be in were all ran in rains. Rains don’t bother American coaches, kids and their parents. This is what I realized in the past a few years. I am going to tell him” I am sure you need to go even there will be some scattered showers, you don’t have to go if there are some lightings.”
Talking about the Fall sports registration, there are bunch of stories related. Now I would like to share what happened in the past a few days.
I really need him in sports all year around, so out of 3 Fall sports, soccer, cross country running and football, I chose soccer for him. Since playing football in high school is too dangerous and he hates running, so soccer should be the only choice. He used to play soccer when he was in elementary school. Even soccer involves a lot of running, but at least it's team game, it can be fun, that’s why there are millions of soccer funs all over the world. So after a not easy conversation, he receded and agreed to go soccer.
The soccer tryout fell on Thursday, the next day after his 2nd covid-19 vaccine shot, I worried about there might be some side effects so he couldn’t go. But basically he has no side effects. He went, but claimed he really doesn’t enjoy it. The 2nd tryout happened on Friday morning, no matter how I convinced him, comforted him, he just lied on bed, didn’t move. His face was facing against the bed, he started weeping. I knew he was struggling, just like what happened on that swimming meet day.
“Ok, just tell me you will go or not, if you decide not going, I will not bother you.” Finally I whispered in a soft voice.
He didn’t reply with words, but swayed his head slightly.
"You don’t want to go, correct?”
“he nodded”
“Ok, but you have to do a sports, it’s good for you. Then you choose between soccer and cross country”
“cross country.”
“ok. Now I am going to call school to change for you.”
I called school and made the transfer for him.
I just wondered how can he stand running. It’s so boring, I bet he blurted out at that moment since he desperatly wanted to escape from going to soccer tryout at that time. My concern is the struggle will happen again when he goes to the cross country tryout.
The cross country tryout was Saturday. I took him there. his face was serious which means he was not happy to go. He went against his willingness.
About 20-30 boys were already there when I dropped him there. the funny thing is there were two coaches there, I knew one of them.
When the boys ran, I talked with him, asking why he was here. he told me he was asked to come to coach yesterday. She, Beverly, I thought his wife, asked him to come. I said “how is Beverly”. “she is not my wife, we divorced twenty years ago…but we enjoy walking together sometimes. We have three kids, born in 1974, 76, and 77…we both are strong person, she hit me and I hit back… I never dated women since we divorced, but she dated, she stayed with a guy for 8-9 years, then didn’t work out. now she has her house and I have my house…..
"You will be together again someday, trust me. I could tell she is happy when she talked about you to me."
"we will see, a lot of thing happened.."
再过几周，收获的秋天就到了
