It Just Depends On How You Look At It
Hi, my name is Will and I am a compulsive golfer. Some of the reasons for this are my love of golf, gadgets, technology and techniques as well a great appreciation for being outdoors as much as possible. I just love playing with gadgets and testing what they can do. Seeing how good I can get using them and enjoying the blending of a new skill with my already acquired skills. It’s fun to watch and see what you can teach your golf body to do and after a while, be amazed that it does it all by itself. That inner grin of an ‘Oh, that was good’, that to me is a compulsion to go for.
Beside a love for technology, being on a golf course on a beautiful day can be very habit forming. Courses are selfishly designed and built on many of the most attractive spaces on our beautiful water planet. Golfing is always an adventure trip through manicured places and sometimes exotic beauty. Yeah, golf can be addicting, but it can also be an invitation, an invitation to commute with the earth, with friends or perhaps a just a good cigar.
Golf can also provide an opportunity to change perspective, not only about golf, but about life in general. Golf can be metaphor for life, and like life, golf is an illusion. It exists as a contextual field in which the opportunity to experience different possibilities resides. Each time the ball is on tee there is a new beginning with endless possibilities. Golf, like life, is really about facing the unknown. Each round, each hole, each shot, represents a chance to experience both ecstasy and agony. In striving for mastery, one realizes that they are both the same. So to master golf, and life, you must surrender to the struggle, and perceive all outcomes as perfectly played.
Compulsive golfers can truly learn to enjoy the beauty of being in love through the game of golf. In love with gadgets and the earth we play golf on. It really depends on how you look at it. If your having a feeling of being tormented by a compulsion or thinking you may be neglecting the family, you don’t necessarily need to look at those as a bad things, merely opportunities to develop creative new techniques to improving your overall game. Golf, like life, can best be looked at as an endless cascade of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle. Golf, as in many sports is a game where your most feared opponent takes the field out of your own thought stream. Truly, it all really just depends on how you look at it.
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