The Commentator's words are playing through the P.A, "number 18 Jermain J. for number 46. Joshua Phillips" and the crowd goes wild. The whole stadium filled with 50,000 seats on a full house day and for that single moment, neither young or old were filling even one of the seats. Joshua or JP for short is up and running. His pace is remarkable and his finishing is beautiful but has it been to late for the coach? Perhaps not. The pass is made, a defence splitting one as well. JP makes his move, he runs for the ball.
His first touch beautiful, his second a wonderful shot, the ball goes up and above the keeper and.... ITS A GOAL! Magnificent play by the young Englishman. He takes of his shirt and his undershirt displaying a well known footballer, Micheal Phillips. Coventry tied things up 2-2. The match ends. Coventry won it! they won the Championship match!!!!
The Man of the Match, JP is interviewed.
"Amazing goal JP. How would this affect you in your upcoming matches? This match for the fans, huh"
JP simply replied, "Lets just say this was a very important match for all of us and I'm glad we could tie it up in time." He looks at his watch and begins to look worried. He quickly rushes off not even staying for the after party.
Driving down the street JP stops at a hospital nearby.
He goes in the hospital and asks the nurse for the key to the room 121. The nurse, recognizing him, hands the key over and continues with her work. He quickly rushes to the room down the corridor and places the key in the key hole and turns the knob. There lays a man around his mid-50s lying on the bed, motionless but not dead. JP gets a call from his coach requesting to know where he is. JP just replied, "I'm busy. Its kinda important. Tell you later."
In his bag, JP has a couple of tapes. He reaches for the DVD player and places the tapes in it. It was a highlight of his goal that drew the match about an hour ago. Nurses gathers and tells him its almost time. JP's knees felt weak. As if he was about to cry, he knelt to his knees and lay by the man's bedside. He whispered in his ear that the goal, the highest point of his career so far meant nothing if he had to lose someone he dearly cared about. The nurses carries the man away from the room and brings him to the surgery room. JP was tired but he tried his best to stay up.
The surgery was a success and everything felt like a relive for JP. His heart aches were gone. His worries for the man was all gone. He threw his arms to the man in the happiest mood. As they were leaving, they headed for the front door. Locked. A loud banging sound is coming from the door.
JP woke up and realized it was a dream. He looked in the room. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. Nurses, doctors, all rushing. He saw a doctor using a defibrillator on the man. He dropped to his knees and he cried. He looked back into the room hoping for the best, preparing for the worst. He stopped. He saw the doctor shaking his head. It was all over. Too much to endure JP ran out straight to his car with tears flowing, headed straight for a shop at the end of town. He took out his credit card and bought a piece of land. He cried himself to sleep. But although so, he went to practice wearing a smile on his face, hiding his true emotions and hiding the real story. A week after, he dug a grave for the man. As one of his teammates were passing by, he helped JP out although JP didn't want the help. After explaining most of the story, his teammate left because he was late for a private practice.
JP, held his own funeral for the man. Alone, he placed the man in the coffin, buried him but not yet putting dirt over the coffin. He said a last prayer and alone he screamed to the skies "Why me God?" but a voice from behind shocked him. It was his teammate and the rest of the football team along with the players from all around the league coming to the funeral to pay respects to the man. They all looked in the coffin and knew exactly who it was. Curious, they asked JP why he did this all alone. He simply replied that he knew this man who well. At the speech, everyone gave a single sentence and about 3,000 of them showed up and filled the land. Then up stepped JP. His words were a little something like this:
"To all, thank you for coming around even if i didn't ask you to. I know maybe i shouldn't have been naive and do this alone but perhaps i should have looked for your advice and see if it was relevant. But this man here wasn't just an ordinary man. To you he may just look like one. But deep inside, he's is totally different. He is extraordinary and a wonderful man. The reason I stand here today is because of that man right there. Micheal Phillips as you all would know was an excellent footballer but he was also a great dad. I love him very much"
After the burial, the same teammate came up to him and said, Your dad was extraordinary. And so are you.
JP was stunned and questioned why
The teammate just replied, wherever you go, whatever you do, you are never alone. It may feel like the end of the world. But there are many more things in life that will hurt you even worse. When you shouted up to the sky, Why Me God? I think maybe god has given me the answer. It maybe because this is how God is showing you, wherever you are, you will have friends that has the same beliefs as you and maybe God is just saying to you, you will never be alone even if you feel like it. Maybe the answer to your question is just "because God put you with friends that will build up your strength and power until you're back on your feet again."
Maybe this post is confusing to all. Why would Brandon post this. no this isn't from a book, its original. But Brandon posted it to once again see whats happen in the past 4 months and how Brandon should and will be grateful for the little things
