Big Fish Small Pond

It is my hope, that everyone gets a chance at some time or another to be a big fish in a small pond.  To love something so much, that you are good at it and perhaps even the best at it compared to the other 4 friends you are playing with. 

Its fun to feel like a big fish in a small pond.  But it isn’t supposed to end there.  Us adults… we often do end it there!  We love being the best, comfortable, feeling good and smug about our big fish-ness. 

Kids can’t control and protect this for themselves so much, because they are constantly upgraded into larger ponds.  The next school is bigger, the next team has older players, the new class if full of kids you have never even met.  The pond always enlarges one way or another as a result of natural growth. 

I was a pretty big fish in a small pond when it came to sports in high school.  I also turned down full ride scholarships at colleges, because there was just this sense that those ponds offering me money, were too small. It was going to feel similar.  Instead I jumped into a pond so big, it was hardly noticeable I was there.  To date, it’s one of my best decisions.  I always carry this with me.  Big Fish Small Pond yes, but get small again by placing yourself in a bigger pond. 

Do it, keep doing it, so we have a knowing of what it’s like when our children go thru it.  It’s easier to have that heavy parking lot talk in the car, about the scary new, big pond thing they are going to do, when you are willing to do it for yourself as well.

I see you little fish, and it’s magic here in this big ol’ pond

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