for a cause

If i had to explain why i paintball you should read this quote and understand or be
weirded out.

It Happens on a random monday
Coming back late from an event, or late on a sunday night right before you're about to get on the plane and be frisked for the third time
You're driving, you're flying, you're sitting in an airport seat with boys from the team.
you're drinking stale coffee trying to stay awake.
you're explaining the fat welt on the side of you're neck to a confused stranger or a best friend.
you're coming back to the other life, the one without paintball, where noone understands why you do it.
you're tired, working off little sleep, and the question creeps up and you try to ignore it.
Why do i do this? why the travel? why the losses? the missed work; the missed school. hours of practice and the complaining girlfriend.
because the lore of living a paintball life is just too potent.
and the products of the road, the travel, are forever in memories in strange lands with stranger people.
because at tournaments you feel as though you can live as loud as you want.
it's worth all the sacrifices its worth all the bullshit.
cause if you work hard enough, a sunday will roll around and you'll be in the huddle screaming, you're hand in, one of ten, playing for the world title.
and suddenly all of those cliche's you've ever heard make sense, and you are defined.
you say it to yourself and it means everything.
"I am a paintball player, and this moment right here is my life."

-Matty Marshal Sunday Driver-
-Monkey With a Gun productions-
There is a video that goes with this quote, and this quote is read aloud with pictures of the things he is talking about in the background. It really impacted me and honestly my true joy of the game. Sunday Driver the name of the video this quote is from was made a few years back the main tournament style is 7 vs 7 now, not 10 vs 10 as stated in the quote. The 10 vs 10 style tournaments ended about 3 years back. it really was a sad time in the paintball world.