Curve Balls

Where did you say the ball was??
 I am not a very good ball player...As a child growing up I tended to duck or put my hands over my face or head whenever a ball came my way, or if I did try reach out and catch it, suffer the humility of having it slip through my fumbling fingers ...
 Now as an adult I still tend to shield my body from its anticipated impact by ducking or putting out my hand to stop it. I have tried to play such sports as volley ball, cricket, even tried swinging a baseball bat, the simple game of catch ...
                                    




                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                A cunning pitcher getting ready to toss a curve ball  

 As I think about it, its those curve balls that people love to throw at you... thats what throws me off... no-one tosses the ball gently or says, "Watch the ball I'm tossing it to you at this angle, raise you hand up above your head and you will for sure catch it! " No, the goal of every pitcher is to see how clever or sneaky he can be so that you DON'T catch or hit the ball,  so that he can get you out ..... So, what does he do? He tosses you a CURVE  ball and you have to try your best to swing at it or, in my case, know where to shield your body to stop it from hitting you and knocking you senseless!!

   Can you see the little white ball? I actually like to play this 

game, maybe it has something to do with not having a ball 

flying toward me.                                            

Have you ever played Boche ball or Carpet Bowls or bowled on a bowling green? You have a little white ball that is rolled out and the object is to bowl the balls so as to get as close to that white ball as possible. Now, those balls never roll straight... depending how you bowl, will determine which way the ball will curve and at what stage of its rolling it will curve - either toward the little white ball or away... the winner of course is the one whose ball has gotten the closest to it

This is how I feel about life right now... I am once again that little girl being tossed these curve balls and they seem to be coming at me from all angles!!! I just can't seem to ward them off/hit/catch them and then, when I try return the balls, they do what the bowling balls do and curve away from my goal and not toward it!

I am really getting very tired of these ball games of life ... I am NOT having fun, Can someone please tell the mean pitchers /ball tossers/ who-ever to STOP and can someone please give me a big easy colourful ball to play with..

THANK YOU