Through A Child's Eyes
A few weeks ago, I was practicing on a Saturday afternoon like I do every week. While I was there a mother brought her son, who was about 9 or 10 years old, to the lanes to bowl, and they got a lane a couple lanes down from my pair. Being as kids are, when he saw all my bowling bags laying around he walked over and looked inside, and then came all the questions, "Why do you got more than one ball?", "How do you make it curve like that?", "You ever do all strikes?", things like that. I tried to answer the questions so a 10 year old could understand them, which wasn't very easy since the inevitable "Why?" question kept popping up. The kid was a ball of energy, and while I kept practicing I watched him bowl. They had the bumpers set out for him, and he was throwing ball after ball, smiling no matter what happened. Then, around his second game, he threw a shot that bounced about 4 times off of the bumpers, and went slowly through the heart ...