Responsibile Decisions and Basketball

In life, we don't always get to do everything that we want to do. Tonight was especially difficult for me as I missed seeing my basketball team win their sixteenth game of the year to complete an undefeated season.

Instead, I chose to go to my Indiana History class this evening. Not only would I have missed the first days information, as it is an accelerated course, but my absence would have caused me to lose 7% of my final grade because of the class attendance policy.

I really did not think that it would bother me as much as it did but that all changed when I was asked to put away my laptop.

As many professors are starting to do these days, my professor did not allow me to use my laptop to take notes. While I was unplugging my power cord and putting my laptop back in my bag, my mood began to change as I have always felt more confident in my typing abilities than my writing abilities.

I then began searching my bag for something to write on for I had no paper and did not expect to write my notes. The only kind of papers I could find was the packet that I should have been using this evening. The packet of papers that I had found was my basketball plays.

It was the first set of plays I had drawn up for my "B" team at the start of the season. In the margins were dozens of notes that I had scribbled down throughout the year in hopes of improving my players and myself as a coach. Notes that would soon be replaced with new notes about the state of Indiana.

So as I proceeded to fill my paper with notes on the Forts, Fur Traders, and the French, I received a text from dad confirming that the perfect season did in fact occur and it filled my stomach with a sick feeling.

I greatly fear that I will come to regret this decision even though many will say that it was the responsible decision. But, even though it may have been the responsible decision, I am still lost in thought on whether or not it was the right decision.

I am sure it was but at this juncture I still feel as if I missed out on something great because of my "responsible" decision.