When Figueras Baseball Academy was put in the hands of fate - in my mind's eye I saw enlightenment!
In my mind's eye I saw enlightenment!
Ready to crumble I staggered under evils and unaware of the departure of my youth with all its follies, I searched for the hidden gold while watching my steps in the foot prints of the economic darkness and found nothing. Burned fingers a couple of times while trying to play the stock market and walked the long road of despair with my intellectual ambitions naked underneath my clothes and my sanity in senility. It was not all my own choosing but I was still flat broke and in an unfamiliar situation as I entered my bank manager's office, cap in hand, to ask for an extension of my overdraft and the necessary funds for my enterprise. "I hope I didn't keep you waiting. What can I do for you?", he asked. "I have been put in the hands of fate and I am seeking your help", was my reply. "The financial crunch has handed us all a common fate and so it is absolutely fatuos to try avoiding what must be", he muttered. "The thing is I need an extension to my present overdraft and funds to build an enterprise", I said. "My dear man, I could not sell myself to myself for the funds you are seeking", he replied. A word to the wise was often sufficient as he had, naturally enough no intention of lending me the money I needed for my non-profit enterprise. I wished I had never come to see him as I thought the wretch was enjoying turning me down. Hag-ridden, I left the bank with a swollen foot, after having kicked the manager's door on my way out, as my pride was hurting and dream in tatters. Fearing retribution I apologised as he identified the dent on the metal door but he took it well as he did not complain. I felt like shouting the crotchety howl of a chagrined kid to the world but decided against it. It appeared as if the good old Lord had deserted me at the moment I needed him most since nothing seemed to be happening for me. Ready to crumble, I then looked back on my fun-filled boyhood when baseball was all it mattered then and altered my thoughts of quitting the enterprise and in my mind's eye I made the plans to build my kingdom and erect the castles of my dream that until then were only built in the air and moving about aimlessly.
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