Teamwork at Play - Greatly Missed

I miss those days in school, where teamwork and play all seem to fall naturally.

We were barely teens when everyone knew about teamwork. Everyone knew their roles well and never complains. The team would train and volunteeringly put in extra hours for the competition ahead. Even without any competition, everyone would play and train up to ensure that everyone was in the best form.

Hours and days under the hot sun seemed such an a simple feat :P Ironically, many today work under the comfort of air-conditioned rooms, even so, complains never seem to end.

I remember looking forward to all the training and ensuring that homework was completed before each session. Each meeting was always pleasant (we don't anticipate preparations for any negotiations, any fire fighting or ...... morale killing speech) and everyone would happily (and genuiningly) and celebrate when a success was achieved.

Oh! And there were even days where we had to compete with the boys from the basketball team to see who get to use the court for our practices. Ha! But the boys had a hard time, cos they couldn't stop themselves from dribbling the ball. They ended up having so many fouls and if I don't remember wrongly, I think we won.

Fun and more fun, even in the midst of all these competitions. I wonder, if those hardship seem so easy cos of the great teamwork and the present of a common goal? The passion, the cheers and the laughers, greatly missed!



Lingering Thoughts: Now that the past can only be a memory, age is adding up, why are team work and common goal a more difficult task. If everyone is different, each has his or her own strengths and weaknesses, each, then have their call for an "ideal role". Yes, multi-tasking seemed like a common word and especially, to save cost. However, if everyone takes on the "attack role", then, what happens to the support?

Simple truth, complicated by adulthood, complacency or, education?