File this under the heading, "Things not to say anymore". My fellow coaches and I have sort of joked about it on the football field this year. We had a string of injuries to start the season and each time I would pronounce an injury as 'nothing serious', it came to pass that the injury WAS serious. When I say we joked about it, understand, it isn't funny. Not at all. We haven't really joked about it as much as we've just wondered at how many times somebody got hurt and it turned out to be serious. And I said, (really without thinking only that I was hopeful) "It's nothing serious". And I was wrong. So I'm not saying it anymore.
The fact is, I've been wrong about this sort of thing too often. Who am I to tell if someone is hurt badly or will be able to shake it off in a day or so? I hate being wrong. But as I get older, and it happens more often, I learn that being wrong is just something that can happen from time to time and that the important thing is not to make it worse by denying that you're wrong. My own dilemma, not shared by everyone, is I become so convinced of being right that the being wrong part that comes later stings more than it should. But that's ok. I'm a big boy, and I can deal with it. I guess the point is, there's no reason to take a position on an issue if you really don't know what you're talking about. And since I'm not a doctor, I really have no business taking a position on injuries. Saves me the trouble of being wrong, too. I think I'll just stay quiet and hope the injury isn't serious.
