When I was growing up, I always thought the world only had three real sports: cricket, basketball, and football (or soccer in America).
Let’s call them the big three. Do anything else and you were just playing the fool.
And being a young male, the only way I could add any value to the human race was to pick a sport and excel at it.
Seeing that I had no interest in cricket, and that I had never seen a basketball court until my teens, my only option left was football.
Tried as I might, till this day I have never excelled in football, which by extension of my world meant I never excelled in sports.
This narrowed perspective on sports stems from school, and it also extended into my reading and writing activities.
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