THOUGHTS ON LIFE

A Goalkeeper …

THE LONE PLAYER?

The goalkeeper is the last defense of a football team.

When other defense players and midfielders of the team are dependable, they can easily prevent most of the attacks from the opponents.

If not? The goalkeeper knows the answer! Because, if the team concedes goals (and a defeat) in a match usually the goalkeeper has to accept full responsibility!

This may be seen as the ‘rule of the game’. Maybe, it is the rule of society too.

A goalkeeper is always standing alone in this world.

The goalkeeper is the only player in the 11-member team who can play the football both by hand and foot, which is not allowed for the other ten.

That makes a goalkeeper unique. Different from others. If the team wins the match, strikers, center forwards or sometimes even midfielders are worshipped as heroes of the game while the goalkeeper of the team is nowhere! Because a goalkeeper never scores. The goalkeeper stands farthest from the opponent’s goalpost, away from the excitement of victory watching innocently what’s going on there on the field. Here also goalkeeper feels lonely.

Who is a goalkeeper?

Goalkeepers are the last line of defense, the furthest players from the opposition goal. Their job is to guard their goals and to stop the opposing team from scoring goals.

Most of us have to play the role of a goalkeeper in life. Their contribution to the family or the society is not always recognized. Their goal is to defend their goals, resist attacks, and protect their family or team from any kind of harm or danger. They are usually silent workers, relentlessly defending without any expectation of return in whatever way they may come in reality. Even after their constant efforts towards building the defense, some defeats are inevitable in life.

On those rainy days, the goalkeeper cries alone.

Society is never interested in the weeping of the beaten-down goalkeeper. They never accept the fact that the goalkeeper tried his best to defend the team against all odds throughout the game.

Ironically, this is the rule of our society.