Who won?

I called Fr. Timothy over and explained why I couldn’t accept $500 worth of gift cards.  He agreed to return them to Bob after the game. 

The next game was a semi-final matchup with the team we had barely beaten in the regular season. The game went into triple overtime. By the end, kids were moving at half-speed.  We used our timeouts to rest players.  Three of our ten players fouled out. 

We won, but the other team wasn’t dejected.  After the final buzzer, they were smiling, laughing, and talking with our players about this play and that play.  We had a hard time herding the teams together for the ritual postgame handshake line. They wished our kids good luck in the finals, and left the gym excited about their season ending ice cream/pizza party.

Sometimes it’s not the score that tells if you if you’ve won or lost.

Life on Life’s Terms II © 2015 by Ken Montrose

(Just a reminder: LOLT II is a work of fiction.  Any resemblance to anyone you might know is purely coincidental.)