Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Zzackback 180425

This comic was inspired by my memories of playing basketball in P.E. class.

Whenever the class played basketball, we'd shoot from the foul line first to determine team captains. Whichever two students that made the shot first would become a captain, then the two would take turns choosing their team among the rest of the class. Though I wasn't much of an athlete, thanks to the basketball hoop we had at home, I managed to get decent at shooting from the foul line. Once, I ended up being the first to make the shot in class. My initial reaction was excitement: “Oh boy, I’m a team captain!” What I quickly learned, though, was that not too many kids wanted to be on the team captained by a not-so-athletic student.

I learned a valuable lesson that day – though it’s nice to know you have the ability to be a team captain if you want, sometimes it’s wiser to acknowledge someone is more qualified for the role, and maybe it’s a little more altruistic to step aside and let that person take the role.

After that day, I still joined in when the other kids “shot for captains”, except I’d tell the class my shots didn’t count. I didn’t want to pass up an opportunity to shoot hoops 😉