In so \u2019n groepie jeugdiges is daar altyd een wat die koppe laat draai; wat onmiskenbaar die cool-faktor en die leier is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 koelkat pronkstap so \u2019n halwe treetjie voor haar volgelinge, wat haar trippelend in \u2019n halfmaan volg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al probeer hulle, hulle bly onopmerklik in die aura wat Koelkat met soveel oemf uitstraal dat aanskouers knipperoog kyk en weer kyk. (Wat op dees aarde het sy aan? Of nie aan nie? Hoe hou sy dit bo?) Koelkat het altyd \u2019n mooi gesiggie; \u2019n vars glimlag; \u2019n haarstyl wat ander begeer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wyk \u2019n mens se o\u00eb \u2019n oomblik van Koelkat af, sien jy haar volgelinge wat so nonchalant as moontlik probeer wees. Maar die afrem aan \u2019n opkruipende rompie; die wankel van \u2019n enkel op \u2019n ho\u00eb hak gaan nie ongesiens verby nie. \u2019n Mens kan jou selfs verbeel dat jy van hulle hoor dink: \u201cWanneer gaan ons asseblief-tog net iets eet?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tydens die afgelope naweek se byeenkoms van University Sports South Africa (USSA) se sewes-rugbykampioenskap vir mans en vroue van tersi\u00eare instellings van oor die land heen, het die Noord-Kaapse hoofstad van jongmense gewemel \u2013 toeskouers \u00e9n spelers. \u2019n Mens kon jou aan die jeugdigheid verkyk: die (soms valse) bravade; die voort\u00advarendheid; die energie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir so \u2019n stadion vol jeugdiges, wat vinniger as wat hulle dink in die grootmens-afdeling gaan wees, wil \u2019n mens raad gee. Praktiese wenke \u00e9n filosofiese gedagtes uit eie ondervinding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jy hoef nie soos Koelkat te wees nie. Skop die spykerhakkies uit en trek jou \u201csneakers\u201d aan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jy wat geboe is omdat jy \u2019n flop op die veld gemaak het: Ten minste was jy op die veld. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moet niks tot \u2019n \u201cvolgende keer\u201d uitstel nie; \u2019n volgende keer gebeur dalk nooit nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Glo maar vir Mahatma Gandhi wat ges\u00ea het: \u201cThe future depends on what we do in the present.\u201d Dit is so: Jou keuses bepaal werklik jou pad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En moenie dink tyd is aan jou kant nie; dat jy nog \u201cjare se tyd\u201d het nie. Die sand in die uurglas vloei vinniger uit as wat jy dink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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