Personal Nonfiction / Blog

On failing well and often. I have never been good at football, my go-to justification nowadays is that I “haven’t played since school” but that obfuscates the truth that even in school, what I did could hardly be considered playing. I was a chubby asthmatic who hated running - which, to be fair, isn’t far off the mark to an accurate description of current me - and despite an early growth spurt that made me a valuable goalkeeper, eventually my stocky build didn’t fit the mould