The other day, I was watching this football match with my friends and as usual, there were shouts from here and there, people yelling at the players and telling them what to do. Mere looking at these guys (the footballers) , one would think that everything they do is probably a walk in the park until we end up giving it a try ourselves and realising that it's not always as easy as it looks like on television.
A good example was my first time playing basketball and how I couldn't even hold the ball properly, not to talk of hooping. After I was eventually taught how to hold the ball properly, I still couldn't score. That humbled me and made me realize that it's not always as simple as it looks on television.
Another experience and probably my most humbling experience yet was the day I tried being a fire breather. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's when you put petrol in your mouth (or whatever it is they put in their mouth) and then you hold a stick of fire and try to blow the petrol into the stock of fire, therefore making a much bigger fire.
One glance at it on TV and it seemed like a walk in the park for me, until I tried it and ended up burning part of my face off. Luckily for me, I was able to conceal the damage after months of applying ointments to the burnt spot on my face. After that experience, that was when I told myself that trying to recreate things I see on television was a no no for me because it might not look like it, but these guys have had months, if not years of experience in that thing and they know how to safely do it in a way where it doesn't end up harming them and it's only because they do it so well, that we all think that we can do it too without practice.
Reminds of my eldest brother trying to drive my dad's car without having any driving lessons and him almost hitting my mom with the car at the process, but that's a conversation for another time. I guess at the end of it all, all I'm saying is that because it looks easy on television, doesn't mean it's easy in real life. Most times, experience has a lot of role to play when it comes to things like this.
