Stepping up to the plate, a term used in base ball where you stand on this plate even though I'm not sure why they call it that, because no one stones a plate. You have a slender bat, looking straight at, someone who is about to throw a life threatening blow, unsure of where it might hit, unsure if you aren't the target, some men are brave enough, to step up to the plate, not because they have a fetish of being hit, but because it involves that home run they crave, no better feeling, and that's the aim of the game. With that said I sit and wonder why, why are some men so afraid of trying, why take up the bat if you aren't going to step up to the plate? Everywhere I look I see the same trait. Filling out some forms and they ask whats my mother's name, I write it out, each time realizing we don't have the same last name, for whatever reason my father was a coward, I didn't get an explanation so I refuse to make an excuse for him. What makes it worst is, he didn't do it once, he did it twice, he up and left me with my mom, Christ! You "picked up the bat" when you and my mom started to date, had a child, sinned, fornicate. But where are your balls? Why'd you leave those? Afraid of marriage? Why though? It's just like baseball, it's like taking a risk, someone might get hurt, but all you gotta do is swing right, forget the three strikes, you have your whole life to make it right, wouldn't you like that home run, living happily with your family, seeing the achievements of your son? Why'd you leave? You couldn't be there for her, but, not even me? You taught me something, even though you weren't here, you taught me how much I would miss out on if I picked up the bat and then turned the other way, you taught me to face my responsibilities and my fears, for they're what could lead to my happy ending and my well being, they say nothing good ever comes easy, so I see marriage and raising your flesh and blood right up there, right up there with the good things, and it's been made so much easier by seeing the outcome of others, so it's not totally stepping into the unknown, it's more like stepping up to the plate, you know the two outcomes that might occur, but you want one so bad that you're willing to risk it, to be called a husband, to be called a dad. Gentlemen, the game is about getting a home run, it's not about picking up the bat and then run, you gotta take the risk first, be seen as a man, and not as a jock, or a jerk. Step up to the plate, see what life's really worth.
By. P.Peddie
October 13, 2013.
