Looking for a Kick in the Rear

[TiVoPrince]

Strive
to be better than you were on your last attempt.  But know that everyone here has faced the same fears at one time or another.  Some prevail while others now fly model airplanes.  Model railroaders are not in this hobby because its easy.  If we wanted easy floral arranging, golf or topiary gardening come to mind.

Human nature is to reach for the perfection that we see in our minds eye.  Human abilities often fall short of these outrageous goals we set for ourselves.  Once in awhile we do fool the eye and camera and its a magical experience.  I would be very surprised to find that any of these great scenes 'just happened' on the first try.  Every one of those photo realistic scenes is a result of planning, mockups, reworks, luck, inspiration (usualy at 3AM) and well thought out changes.  

Having your work torn to shreds by the jackalls that inhabit TheRailWire hurts every time.  The encouragement and advice that comes along with the pain is the balm that helps you heal...

[Philip H]

There's nothing easy about golf . . . . :

[mionerr]

There's nothing easy about golf . . . . :

Losing balls is easy.

[Philip H]

There's nothing easy about golf . . . . :

Losing balls is easy.

Fair point.  Managed to only loose one ball playing 9 last sunday.  The week before wasn't so much fun.

And now back to our regularly scheduled butt-kicking . . . .

[MichaelT]

There's nothing easy about golf . . . . :

Agreed ;D

[TiVoPrince]

Goals
on the golf course can be far less stringent.  Most of the guys I play with (and owe multiple strokes to) are only too happy to be 'better than bogey' or break 100 more than once a year.  As in model railroaading we set our own 'standards' but we are more lienient when it comes to golf.  We tend to set our model railroading goals closer to perfection since we take a lot more 'mulligans' on our layouts than we take on the course...

[cv_acr]

When I was younger I used to go golfing with my dad and brother (I still golf with my dad once in a while, but since my brother, my parents and I have lived in different cities for several years, we don't always all get together at the same time too often anymore) and the crappy golfers we were, at the end of the day we kindof counted our score based on how many balls we lost vs. how many lost balls that we found that we didn't start out with.

[Iain]

Welcome to The Railwire; home better modeling and thicker skins through shredding and epic thread drift.

As far as golf goes, I am satisfied if the ball goes in the direction of the hole.