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No Smooshing!(From the book No Smooshing!)Gary E. Andersonwww.abciowa.comHigh school football is in full swing, and its fun to sit in the stands on a crisp autumn night and watch our kids play. It can also be the source of some pretty funny comments by the fans, especially mothers who may be watching the only football games theyll ever witnessor care to witness, for that matter.For instance, during one recent game, our cheerleaders were standing with their backs to the field, leading a cheer of hold em, hold em! when one of the fathers in the stands yelled out, Girls! I think thats illegal!He was right, of course, since our team happened to be on offense at the time.But the real gem of that night was an observation made by the halfbacks mother. After watching her son trying to run off-tackle twice in a row, only to get caught up in a tangled pile of bodies at the line of scrimmage, she said, You know, it seems to me theyd do a lot better if they wouldnt all just smoosh together like that.Although her comment brought gales of laughter from everyone around her, and the rest of the night was punctuated by various people yelling no smooshing! toward the players on the field, I had to admitthe lady was right. Our plays would have gone better if everyone just stopped smooshing.All the next week, that no smooshing comment kept playing through my mind, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that life itself is like that football game. The key to success often lies in our ability to avoid getting caught up in the tangle of everyday problems and to break into the open fieldin other words, to avoid smooshing.That unintentionally profound statement also proved to be the kind of wisdom that only comes about when a person doesnt know enough about a situation to know that something is impossible. There were perfectly logical reasons for all the smooshing going on out there on the field, but that mom didnt know about any of themso she came up with a simple solution to the problem. I could relate, since Id experienced a perfect example of that when my friend Digger and I were still in high school. We had decided that we wanted to write and sell jingles for the radio commercials. Filled with youthful enthusiasm, we threw ourselves into our quest and before a month had passed, wed already sold three. Then one night, during the recording session for our third jingle, an advertising executive happened to tell us how amazing it was that two kids could have done the impossible by selling jingleswhen everyone knew it could only be done by the most accomplished, professional musicians.That was the last jingle we ever sold. Wed stopped running in the open field and bogged down in the tangle of bodies at the line of scrimmagewe smooshed. So if you have a dream, hold it up to the light, keep your eyes on it at all times, and above allnever let anyone tell you that what youre trying to do is impossible. And whenever you find yourself beginning to lose heartstop, take a deep breath, and repeat these words: No smooshing!© 2004. Gary E. Anderson. All rights reserved.
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