Discouraged?

No Need to Be Discouraged

As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home.  As I sat down behind the bench on the first-base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was.

“We’re behind 14 to nothing,” he answered with a smile on his face.

“Really,” I said.  “I have to say you don’t look very discouraged.”

“Discouraged?” the boy asked with a puzzled look.  “Why should we be discouraged?  We haven’t even been up to bat yet.”