| "Boink!" the paintball hit my protective face shield and | | | | you and make you see again? Could be. But |
| the paint almost blinded my then foggy helmet. It was | | | | sometimes it is best to heal yourself on your own. You |
| then that I realized how already blinded I was because | | | | have to nurse yourself back to recovery before |
| of the moist on my face shield and still I kept on | | | | finding another one. For when you are blinded with |
| chasing the opponents. I never paused to clear it | | | | tears, how can you see clearly the person in front of |
| instead I stopped when I was hit because I could no | | | | you? How can you see and experience his love when |
| longer see anything and just before I knew it - I was | | | | you are overwhelmed with pain and you feel none but |
| out of the game. Paintball made me think of a few | | | | yourself, hurting. You will just add another one to fall in |
| moments in my life when I fail to realize right away | | | | this battle with you. Do not pull people down. Allow |
| that I need to pause and think. It is even fine to | | | | them to fight their own battles. This is not about |
| sometimes hibernate from this crucial life. When it is | | | | paintball anymore, this is life, and we can never bring |
| almost likely that we are about to fail, it is sometimes | | | | back what is lost. When we have to pause, we must |
| better to step back and do what is needed, for it is | | | | pause. And when It is time to go, then go. Don't |
| never about getting things done fast. The paintball field | | | | pressure yourself into something that is untimely to |
| represents the world. We people fight the battle. | | | | happen or you will forever suffer. You are just making |
| Although we work as a team, we must not depend on | | | | things harder. |
| anybody. We finish the battle on our own by seeing | | | | We can do things right, not just in the game of paintball, |
| things clearly and accurately. By paying attention to | | | | but in everything that we do. We just have to see |
| details and to what is needed in the moment. It is not | | | | things clearly and pausing sometime is enough for us |
| always about attacking the conflict but doing the right | | | | to think of a better way to make things right. It doesn't |
| things at their perfect timing. | | | | matter how long it takes for us to finish the battle in life, |
| An instance could be breaking up with the guy that | | | | what matters is we fought the right way. Winning is |
| meant the world to you. When you are in so much | | | | not the game in life, it is more of sustaining. A life |
| pain and so much blinded by tears do you think it is | | | | well-lived is a life of those who are able to sustain |
| best to look for another guy to wipe your tears for | | | | even in the hardest and toughest situations. |