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Seven Life Lessons from Playing Tennis
I learned more than tennis skills after playing the sport over the years. They are life lessons that I am now taking out of the court.
I am not a very athletic person by any stretch of the imagination. I was a rather shy and weak child growing up who would often fall sick. Naturally, I shunned away from sports.
Tennis, however, changed my disposition completely. I had a slow start and it took many years to be good enough to play with other people. But once I crossed over the high threshold, I fell in love with tennis.
After playing tennis for quite some time, I learned something other than tennis skills. I summarized them as seven life lessons that I am taking out of the tennis court.
1. Play by the rules
Tennis has a very strange way of counting points. Instead of going 1, 2, and 3, the points are counted as Love, Fifteen, Thirty, Forty, and then Game. Love is from the French word “L’Oeuf” which is pronounced as “love’ and means “the egg.” That kind of makes sense since an egg looks like the number zero.
