Richard Head stumbled on a football match last Saturday and was fairly unimpressed.
“Meh,” he said to himself as he grabbed another beer. “I could do that.”
His longtime girlfriend, Emily, nodded and said, “Mhmm.”
“Please,” he rebutted, “run around and kick a ball into a huge net? Easy.”
Richard recalled his early days when he was strong, coordinated, and 20 years younger. He dominated neighborhood pickup games and was consistently called “fairly athletic for his size” by multiple people.
“Hey, I played in college, remember?” he continued, disturbed by Emily’s skepticism.
“You played DURING college, Richard,” she replied. “Playing on a men’s team while you were in college is not the same as playing collegiate sports. There’s a huge difference. And now you’re saying you could play professionally?”
“I never said I could do it right now,” he answered hastily. “I meant if I had WANTED to, I could easily do it. I just don’t want to.”
“These athletes dedicate their whole lives – 24/7 – to training, maintaining special diets…”
As she talked, he started thinking of the time he had put that cabinet together quite easily with tools that he had bought himself, and the time he had learned mucho new Spanish words on Duolingo, and the time he had pretty much taught himself how to play the guitar.
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