Sports can teach us about life Pt. 1

I have been at home watching ESPN when the flashing breaking news came on the screen. The sports broadcaster announced, "Bobby Petrino is leaving the Atlanta Falcons for the Arkansas Razorbacks." Now this would not be a huge deal most of the time. Most college football coaches just don't do well in the NFL. Their style of leadership just doesn't cross over and they can't sell the 'program' to the paid players like they did with the college kids. The reason this is a big deal is because he (Bobby Petrino) is leaving the Atlanta Falcons after only 13 games. He didn't even finish the season!

What is even more ridiculous to hear is how he had lied to the owner of the Falcons and reassured him a day before of him quitting, telling the owner he was the "coach of the Falcons." His former players, the Atlanta Falcons have now come out in criticism calling him everything from 'coward', 'liar', and 'quitter'. Bobby Petrino, no matter how you spin it, quit on the team and the organization.

I'm not ranting about this because I'm an Atlanta Falcons fan. I only write about this because this situation reminds me of life today. Where someone makes a promise or a declaration to stay in some form of committed relationship and then all of a sudden quits. The grass is greener on the other side or the relationship is too hard. The person makes a decision to leave. This led me to a question of why?

What makes the grass look so much better on the other side. I think its not so much as the grass being greener then the other side. I think its the lens of the person that life is being viewed from. If one comes to conclusion that life is not so great here and its better to quit and leave, then does that person have a right perspective on life.

We teach our children to learn from our mistakes. I have made my own quote of "The smartest man is not learning from his own mistake, the smartest man is learning from the mistakes of others." But do we live this ideal out?

So maybe there is some good from Bobby Petrino quitting on his team. Maybe the good is so that we may learn not to quit on ours.

Please let me know your thoughts.