Mattymick on Nostr: ...

Teach them to aim early and often….particularly when young, as target practice is a metaphor for life.

The perfect center of the target is the goal, infinitely unobtainable, but worthy of relentless pursuit. At the perfect center lies truth.

Taking aim requires discipline and the need to follow a natural ruleset. Failure to exercise both carries immense risk to both self and others.

A missed target requires critical self analysis and proper adjustment in order to achieve improvement. Failure to adjust guarantees similar missed goals.

Focus, respiratory and heart rate control, awareness of environment and controlled movement during execution are all learned behaviors that carry immense ramifications in life. We need to learn to breathe, narrow our vision, appreciate our surroundings and control our movements (or reactions) though-out our journey…moving closer and closer to our goal with each attempt.

Critics and skeptics will see a bb-gun in a child’s hands….I see a lifetime of life lessons packed into a backyard practice with Dad.