“Are you blind? Do you need spectacles? The ball just went above your head!” I shouted at Vincent, the goalkeeper, who refused to admit that the penalty shot was a goal. The argument became more intense. I was about to use some moves I had seen in The Karate Kid when suddenly I heard: “Alex!” I recognized the voice at once and, intuitively, tried turning the scene into a joke.

Sch. Titus Gonmei, SJ

The author is a Kohima Scholastic currently doing his college studies at St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad.