GUARDING THE GATE



The attached quote reminded me of having read of an incident on the football field that happened long ago. Here it goes -

[ In December 1937, during a football match at Stamford Bridge in London between Chelsea FC and Charlton FC, the game was abandoned in the 60th minute due to heavy fog.

Unfortunately, Charlton FC goalkeeper Sam Bartram was unaware that the match had been stopped and continued to guard his goal for another fifteen minutes. He did not hear the referee’s whistle because of the noise from the crowd behind him.

Believing that his teammates were attacking the opposing goal, he stood with outstretched arms, fully focused on protecting his goal amidst the dense fog.

It was only fifteen minutes later when the field police approached him and informed him that the match had been abandoned fifteen minutes earlier.

Sam Bartram, deeply saddened by this, famously said:
"HOW SAD THAT MY FRIENDS FORGOT ME WHEN I WAS GUARDING THEIR GATE." ]

The above could pretty well apply to life too. We very often guard the goals of many around us, but as the 'air gets blurred or foggy', a few may abandon us. That's quite a common occurrence...

As Lord Buddha said, we meet people not by accident, but always with a reason. A variety of them, with different thinking, mannerisms, abilities, virtues, compatibility etc. But try to learn we must from each and everyone, be it either a blessing, or a lesson...

In the context of the incident above, despite the saying that the windshield is larger than the rear-view mirror for a reason, the latter maintains it's importance much enough to not be ignored...

Those who wish us well do glow perennially. It is for us to identify those stars amongst the crowd in the canopy, preferably during our life's luminous hours rather than our dark ones. For, life is pretty short... 😊

🙏🙏


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