Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Staying in Control

I begin by saying I am not a control freak.  In my own mind anyways.  Maybe most people would say otherwise.  When I talk about staying in control I am talking about controlling my imperfect ways and my imperfect environment.  I have mentioned before that I am a free spirit by nature.  I love to get crazy at times.  I tend to over drink when possible.  In college I was even worse if you know what I mean.  Now that I am the Imperfect DAD I need to control this side of me.  I wasn't sure how I was to do this.  I decided that I couldn't be out of control if I was spending time with my Angel.  My answer to this was to sign my Angel up for soccer.  She was only 3 years old but a big 3.  The games were early mornings on a Saturday.  Normally time that was spent recovering from the night before.  Of course I signed her up late so they didn't have a coach for her unless somebody volunteered.  Well I wasn't going to let my girl down so I signed up to be her first coach.  Thank god the kids were 3 and 4 years old because I didn't know anything about soccer.  I was so out of place amongst veteran parents of the soccer world.  I was the only parent showing up in a red sports car and not a minivan or suv.  I soon realized that just being in a structured environment help me control my imperfect ways.  If I was to be out the night before in the crazy world I could NOT live up to my committed job of being coach to my Angel and her new teammates.  Just being in a different environment indirectly controlled me in a positive way.  So Just because I show up on a Harley to Soccer games when her mom takes her doesn't mean that I'm a bad DAD just that I'm staying in Control in my own Way!

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