US Open 2009

I had the opportunity to go to the US Open after work yesterday. It was amazing! I watched the girls play, Sharapova dominated, and then a little of the men's night matches. It took so long just to get into the stadium because there were So many people! It was definitely one of the funnest things I've done since I've been here. I was really impressed with something that one of last nights players said as they were interviewed before their match. The reporter commented to Parakova before her match that she had played some top players before, like one of the William's sisters, and proceeded to ask if she thought that because of experiences like that, she felt better prepared for this match against Sharapova. She was foreign, from Bulgaria, and spoke very simple English, but I was really impressed with her response to that question. What she said, essentially, was that this match was a new match, and no other matches right now mattered; not her last match against Sharapova, nor her previous win. It was a new battle for her and she wasn't going to let anything else interfere with her game. Nothing else mattered. That's how it is sometimes, isn't it? Life brings us challenges that we hope to overcome, or just endure until their passing. Every day is like a new match-- always so unpredictable. If we let ourselves get carried away in miserable yesterdays, it prevents us from ever moving on, creating a new today, and foreseeing better tomorrows. My yesterday will not determine the outcome of my today. . .