I'm always disgusted when I see stories about a coach or father behaving like that. Is an 8 year old baseball team's Win/Loss ratio really that important that you have to hurt someone? And at what point did it become more important than a team member's right to enjoy and participate?

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.