Monday, October 3, 2011

What's Your Angle?


Ever have those thoughts that nag at you, yelling "hey you there's more to me than you're letting out". That's the way this article started out, I was going to write a post for another blog (Cowboy's Thoughts) about the angles in team roping when the thought started to get legs and grow.  The more I was thinking about the other article, the more I felt of how angles affect our entire existence.
In the morning, we get up...our first angle.  From there it just continues.  Eating, our arms and hands are working at angles, is usually another.  You're in a conversation with someone and make an interesting point and then they say or think "what's you angle".  Those are just to get you started, now just look around at the angles that surround you. There's lots, right?
Have you heard the phrase "behind the eight ball".  Do you wonder what it means?  It means you got a bad angle and that your next shot will be very difficult.  This phrase doesn't just relate to billiards but also to situations like "he's behind the eight ball on this one".  Means the person is in a difficult situation and will have a hard time finding away out.
Don't get me wrong, I still have lots of respect for the other geometric forms.  Like the circle, we have a circle of friends. In that circle you are in the middle which is another angle.  The square has angles in every corner. The triangle even starts with angle in its name.
So what's your angle?  Look around angles everywhere almost like the air we breathe. What would the world be like without angles.
I still think I will write the article on angles in team roping but now I have to find a new title.