Footballing self into game plan of spirituality
By Taiye Olaniyi

Success, as it is in football or life, entails team spirit, harmonious connecting and interconnectedness, timeliness of thoughts, actions, kicks, and active passivity in goal setting and targeting.

Sometimes what we engage in, are attracted to, or take so casually may carry a lot of modules and templates of meanings.

Football is one game, hobby, and/or means of living to and for many people all over the world today, over 250 million players abound both males and females, and in certain age brackets.

Besides actual football players are the handlers such as coaches, referees including numerous other officials that officiate various matches played at certain levels of play.

Football requires a lot of aspirations for one to excel, now beyond a game graduating to a profession, a money-making venture entails a lot of sweating and perspiration.

No matter how fantastic the strikers are, so we have those who keep the defense, the goalkeeper, and others playing at their positions and wings.

Eleven players for each team and twenty-two during the game of play.

Referees to refer, linesmen to keep tabs on all players so they keep and play within bounds, and outside the field of play are a couple of players on reserve seats.

Figuratively, footballing commands the usage of measurements and symbols, rectangular, circular, semi-circle, and roundish, spherical leather, the ball that traverses and flies around depending on modes of play.

Though football is a game of play, yet full of meanings in spirituality.

In life just as one could be an active player, one could again decide to be mere a watcher, a passive participant, or mere a spectator.

In life one could aspire to score goals, moving and drifting, sweating and perspiring, scoring wing, and other times get scattered and shattered or wounded by an unpredictable game of life.

Sometimes fate and fortunes smile at one but other times one is rounded in a box of regrets thus reflecting on how better one could have participated in the football of life.

Success, as it is in football or life, entails team spirit, harmonious connecting and interconnectedness, timeliness of thoughts, actions, kicks, and active passivity in goal setting and targeting.

Have you bothered to query your existence, measure your time, make moves when you should, and recede into self for guidance from the higher, hirable power within, the constructive, creative cosmic force within?

As we daily team up with others to cheer, and applaud those considered scoring goals, making successes, and dazing others in all there is, our search for life and the "why" of existence, must equally push us the way of the "Master Within" The pitch of life is vast, it is there open for all, the game of life ready for our individual footballing to levels of spirituality and with aspirations for goals, perspiration for attainment, so be it the assurance for intuition and inspiration for self-mastery and personal mastership.

May that spiritual light that every seeker of Greater Light seeks pitch us afield towards the Divine so the Divine moves towards us in applause, victories, and goals in this game of life.

May Light, Life, and Love lead humanity back to the Domain of Peace profoundly.
Amen.

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Taiye Olaniyi, a retired Postman of theNigeria Postal Service, is based in Lagos