muted rhythms

"Climbing has taught me that failure is an essential and important part of learning and succeeding. We must understand this fact and accept it in order to progress. For some reason, I forget this everytime I have a project, and I am forced to relearn this lesson. I have learned it thousands of times, but I cannot seem to grasp this concept in the long-term. I decided to give in to this idea of failure and embrace it after falling on the last move of Turkish Airways last night. I told myself that I would try again, but not to succeed, just to try; to experience climbing in its purest and most natural form. I also promised myself that if I fell, it was ok. I would not be upset. So guess what happened? I didn’t fall. I just climbed like I would have if nothing mattered. My mind was clear. There was no past, and no future, just movement and action. I did it. I was proud that I had conquered that mental demon. Another lesson learned (more like re-learned), onto the next project……"

taken from:
http://www.neverstopexploring.com/blog/2010/04/free-range-turkey-4.html

ended my last netball game ytd night.
we lost to SIM, by 1 point, so we placed 4th, without a medal.
quite a heart wrencher, considering we just lost our semis on tues to TP.
(btw, TP won NTU and are champions.)
the drives and runs i did, the last few minutes of pressure and forcing my legs to move..
appreciating the fact that i may not do this again anytime soon.
yet somehow i'd like to play it all back again.
this last year i have in nus, this last game of school netball that i played, perhaps the last run i've done in competitive netball, all these hang around my head, in my thoughts.



i can only thank ms chng for asking me to play, to wait for me to climb as much as i could in sem 1 last year before coming back to train with the team.
honoured that she believed in how much i can play.
and im thankful for this year's team, all the girls so loveable and making trng enjoyable and fun. =)
(they even plan farewell party for me and ziying. awww)

well,
time to set down the adidas barracades and pick up my lasportivas.
boulderactive adverts are all up on facebook.
and yuji is gonna be the routesetter.
exciting march ahead! cant wait! =)


credits to yixiang