The ball will go in

Last night I watched the championship game as the culmination of my March madness - but compared to what may have been one of the most exciting national championships of my lifetime last year, this year was painful to watch.

It doesn't matter if you love basketball or not - when a team that came this close to winning the national championship in a Cinderella run that will go down in history - last year and then again this year - you want them to win.

I just kept thinking "the ball will go in... it has to go in..." but when a team misses 22/23 shots in a row... and just keeps missing...

That team shoots 18.8% in the national championship game and your heart breaks for them. And when their sweet as sugar 12-year old looking coach chokes up trying to talk about one his seniors and how hard he worked every day of his 4 years at Butler - you just want to shake your fist at the universe.

Sometimes things just aren't fair. They don't seem to make sense, and they suck.

War in the Congo for over 15 years isn't fair.
Paper cuts right before you are supposed to run a home-made lemonade stand aren't fair.
8.9 earthquakes in Japan aren't fair.
Getting stuck with the bill on a bad date isn't fair.
Budget cuts affecting life saving programs and policies isn't fair.

There are a lot of things out there that are simply unfair.

And I'm not the kind of person who buys "it all happens for a reason" hook line and sinker. I want to believe that the world will keep spinning and we'll find growth amidst the rubble - but I don't want to think there was growth thanks to destruction.

There was growth in spite  of destruction.

So from basketball to earthquakes to paper cuts  - screw you unfairness. I choose to see the sunshine today.