05-07-2015, 09:56 AM
What does our club stand for?
A simple question with a far from simple answer.
I think the club has lost its identity over the past 15 years. We can look far and wide to find our identity, but perhaps the answer is closer than we think.
So close in fact, that each and every player, coach and supporter is wearing the answer more often than not - Our clubs motto.
Mens sana in corpore sano
Usually translated to - 'A sound mind in a sound body'
I did a quick bit of research and came across its original use. Click here for more info
It is from a series of poems that were written about 1900 years ago. Our motto is from the 10th poem.
Now i'm not one to go off reading poems but in this instance, I recommend this be force fed to our players, coaches, staff and board. It is very enlightening given our current circumstance. The English translation is below.
Satire X: Wrong Desire is the Source of Suffering
It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.
Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,
which places the length of life last among nature’s blessings,
which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,
does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believes
the hardships and savage labors of Hercules better than
the satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.
I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;
For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue.
People can work through that themselves, but to me that title is very apt and the take home point for me is as follows.
People who want for the wrong things are destined to suffer.
Whereas people who work hard and give all of themselves will be rewarded.
Is it too much to ask for that we live up to our own motto?
A simple question with a far from simple answer.
I think the club has lost its identity over the past 15 years. We can look far and wide to find our identity, but perhaps the answer is closer than we think.
So close in fact, that each and every player, coach and supporter is wearing the answer more often than not - Our clubs motto.
Mens sana in corpore sano
Usually translated to - 'A sound mind in a sound body'
I did a quick bit of research and came across its original use. Click here for more info
It is from a series of poems that were written about 1900 years ago. Our motto is from the 10th poem.
Now i'm not one to go off reading poems but in this instance, I recommend this be force fed to our players, coaches, staff and board. It is very enlightening given our current circumstance. The English translation is below.
Satire X: Wrong Desire is the Source of Suffering
It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.
Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,
which places the length of life last among nature’s blessings,
which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,
does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believes
the hardships and savage labors of Hercules better than
the satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.
I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;
For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue.
People can work through that themselves, but to me that title is very apt and the take home point for me is as follows.
People who want for the wrong things are destined to suffer.
Whereas people who work hard and give all of themselves will be rewarded.
Is it too much to ask for that we live up to our own motto?