I wish i’d learnt how to fish all those years ago. I think i would have enjoyed it far more than i enjoyed kicking a football around. My grandad was a keen fisherman, back in the day. I always thought that there must have been something more satisfying than kicking a football like you do. Such as dipping your rod and waiting to see what you’d caught, having spent hours in thinking what it could be. To a lot of people it’s a pointless exercise but there are worse things you could do; you could watch grown men chase after a ball. Now, that’s pointless.
M.J. Ryan, the author of “The Power of Patience,” explains that learning patience benefits health. Impatience causes stress, weakening your immune system and raising your blood pressure. Patience, meanwhile, makes you calmer and more content.
That’s what it is. Your mind feels better as you slow down and you see the importance of patience. Being as disabled as i am i’m no longer able to go fishing - not that i ever did - but i wish i could. These days the nearest i get to peace and quiet is when i’m reading a book.
Reading a book is something that my mates Chris and Ian can both do. They still prefer to fish though. It must be an open air thing. The fresh breeze on their faces; eating outdoors. I remember what that’s like. I haven’t been in this wheelchair that long that i can’t remember how good it is to be without it. I’ve been wheelchair-bound for over five years now, but i still long for the days when i could’ve gone fishing. If i could do it all again, i’d be an expert angler and maybe i’d open an angling shop too.
Looking back to how you’d wished it could have been different is like wishing you could have had a twelve inch penis - it just aint gonna happen. There’s dreaming about what a great fisherman you’d be and there’s a little thing called reality. The best fishermen are those who have it in their blood and who are doing it on a daily basis. You have to start young at this game; to some people it’s just a way of life.
i still wished i’d done it when i was younger. Maybe i wouldn’t have been disabled; it was a different way of life. It gave you a discipline to follow and is a good way of life. Following football, on the other hand, isn’t.
