“Everyone has a past, but that’s just it- it’s in the past. You can learn from it, but you can’t change it.” This quote was said by Nicholas Sparks. Everyone has a past, whether it be good or bad. Our past can reflect who we were as people and who we have become. Some people are changed in better ways, but some are changed in worse ways. Your past is filled with memories and events that had huge impacts on you and that changed you dramatically as a person. People may refer to “back when” as the day before or years before present time. In my case, my “back when” refers to my early childhood years.
When remembering my early childhood years certain things come to mind. Certain things that tend to stick with you, such as familiar smells, sounds,
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I use to play soccer only on the weekends, then it progressed to a couple of days a week, and finally I’m playing the sport 24/7. I play club soccer in the winter and spring and I play high school soccer in the summer and fall. When I’m not playing soccer games, I’m training. Soccer has become definitely more competitive over the last few years. Now, I’m playing for a club team that focuses on college showcases mostly. I’m also playing for my high school soccer team and I made varsity both my freshman and sophomore year. Soccer could possibly be the gateway of attending a great college. Well, that and my grades. Soccer can be relaxing at times, but it can also be stressful. When I was younger I had no stress while playing soccer. It was a stress reliever for me. It was a time where things like school and other stressful things occurring in my life didn’t take over my mind. Now at times, I can get into a zone and not think about anything and have no stress. However, the are also times where I get so nervous and stressed out while playing soccer. The reason for this is because if you don’t play a good game you’re sitting the bench. If I’m sitting the bench then no college scouts will see me and I could potentially lose that chance of college scouts looking at me and recruiting me. Ultimately I should thank the great game of soccer because it has taught me so many life lessons that most people don’t get to experience until they are older. I have learned how to work as a team, how to overcome obstacles, and how to not quite. I’m a completely different person when I’m on the soccer field. I’ve been called silent, but deadly. Soccer is a long game that takes a lot of energy and hard work. I think that playing soccer at more competitive levels has helped me to become a well rounded student. I have to prioritize my time between school, soccer, and the other activities I’m involved
Due to the stressful and high pressure nature of this achievement context in academies, the question of how to ensure athletes realize their sporting potential without experiencing athletic burnout has become increasingly important (Isoard-Gautheur, Guillet-Ducas & Duda, 2012). Research into this process has highlighted various factors such as perfectionism (Lemyre, Hall & Roberts, 2008; Gould, Tuffey, Udry & Loehr, 1997) and stress-coping techniques (Coakley, 1992) as being important in athletic burnout, but has also shown certain motivational factors ( ) to play an influential ...
I found that three out of five senses were difficult for me to go into detail about, and only two had strong connections to memories: smell, and taste. When writing about my present home, my ocular and auditory senses were easiest to research, while the others could not be easily connected. For touch, I couldn 't use present or past, and so I had to consider instead how touch is associated with what I think of my future. While I discussed my findings with the people I share my home with, as well as family I used to live with, my findings were completely different compared to their ideas. We all live(d) in the same environment, and experience roughly the same things at home, and yet, we all associated different things. Diego, my fiancé, who I share the house with along with his mother and sister, said that home sounded like his mom doing dishes. His mother said her home sounded like the creaking of an old house. I, on the other hand, recorded that the home sounded like screaming children from the daycare in the basement. I also compared my findings with my mum when looking at the past. I said that memories of home smelled like Christmas. She could not think of a scent, but disagreed that our home smelled like Christmas. We both agreed that the taste of tea was easily associated with home,
As I have been reading memoirs about memory for this class, each essay made me recall or even examine my past memory closely. However, the more minutely I tried to recall what happened in the past, the more confused I got because I could not see the clear image and believe I get lost in my own memory, which I thought, I have preserved perfectly in my brain. The loss of the details in each memory has made me a little bit sentimental, feeling like losing something important in my life. But, upon reading those essays, I came to realize that remembering correct the past is not as important as growing up within memory. However, the feelings that were acquired from the past experience tend to linger distinctly. The essay that is related to my experience
Going to college is such a stressful time in a person’s life. You have to go through the process of finding what school you want to go to and what you are going to study. Figuring that out has to be difficult because they may be unsure if they are going to make the right decision or not. Now imagine going through the process of picking the best school for yourself and what you are going to study, and add playing a sport on top of that stress as well. You play a sport all throughout your childhood and high school, you do not want to give that up as you go away to college. You decide you are going to go to college to play that sport, not only do you want to play that sport, you also want to go to a Division Ι school and compete at the highest
Malcolm X once said, “There is no better than adversity. Every defeat; every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.” I stared closely at the scoreboard, watching the seconds count down. I grasped that I would not be playing in this game or the next, or the one following that. This season would be a learning experience, an experience that would strengthen my mind and spirit. My first year on varsity soccer was truly a challenge. I struggled for the first time in my soccer career and faced many difficult obstacles, along the way. The season began, and I was immediately labeled as a “reserve” player. I was a bench warmer and a useless substitute, who had minimal playing time.
Each game, my passion grew. Each team, new memories and lifelong friends were made. Sports sometimes make me feel disappointment and at loss; but it taught me to be resilient to a lot of things, like how to thrive under pressure and come out on top. Being the team captain of my high school’s football and lacrosse team showed me how having a big responsibility to bring a group together to work as one is compared to many situations in life. Currently playing varsity football, varsity lacrosse, and track I take great pride in the activities I do. Staying on top of my academics, being duel enrolled at Indian River State College, working three nights a week, and two different sport practices after school each day shaped my character to having a hard work
Soccer has guided me in many ways to become the person I am. Especially in high school, the sport has showed me how to be much more cooperative and open with others. Before high school, I isolated myself from others and had only a few close friends. Rather than being a sociable, I acted as though I was the only person in the world and had the outlook that as long as I do what is right individually, there is no need for me to work with others. This outlook changed when I joined the soccer team at Holy Spirit, my high school. With the way soccer is at the high school level, I had no choice but to cooperate and associate my selves with others. Once on the field, instead of introducing myself as "me" I had to introduce myself as a part of the team. You win as a team and you lose as a team. Sometimes I wanted to drive to games myself, and I was not allowed to because we are supposed to travel together and it would be wrong to the team for me to separate myself from the group.
My first memory is getting the baseball doughnut inside Krispy Kreme. And it were more commonly known as strawberry filled doughnut. My grandma would go through the drive thru and get these for me I were about three. One of my favorite things to get and were always easier for me to chew other than anything else. I had many doughnuts and hot chocolate or cold chocolate milk being watched by my nanny, Velma .We had such special bond because she had a daughter my age and her name was Jamila .From then and still do which goes way back. Many other early memories I have are the slumber parties I had at my nanny house as a kid. I remembering having my five-year-old birthday party at the Arcade Iron Horse. I also remember being completely devastated when it was close down and went out of business not too long after
Learning to walk as a child the ability to overcome previous barriers and broken free into new territory. Often times these memories consist of the various forms of formal and inform rite of passages that humans accumulate over their long lives. The brain remembers these memories because they hold importance
I was always taught that soccer was to be about the love of the game and that it should be fun. Unfortunately, I faced many obstacles that I needed to overcome before I could truly love the game for what it was worth. I grew and continued to love the game, knowing little at the time of the obstacles I would be faced with, and would need to overcome. My struggles with soccer began early in my life. I was an average player, who had a drive to succeed and go far.
Many philosophical debates have happened regarding this idea. The debate about the self and identity and what constitutes it has been widely discussed by Locke. Locke believes that these kinds of memories make someone similar to what they were in the past if not better (Klein, 2012). Just as countries and cities have history, so does one’s self within itself. As history is recorded within and through literature, consider yourself as your
A red brick house on top of a small hill is where my memories reside. A slightly curved gravel road led to the front of the house. Eight or nine rose brown apple trees randomly covered the plush green lawn. Down the small hill, muddy brown water trickled down a ditch with cattails surrounding it. One enormous willow tree sat in the background, to the right of the house, to complete the picture. It almost seemed like a picture from a postcard. But when you're a kid none of this really matters. All that really matters to you is to have as much fun as possible. My memories don't come just from this beautiful picture but from the little things making it.
People have often thought of going back in time because of regrets or mistakes they want to fix in the past. The only way to go to the past is time travel there. Time travel has been know as science fiction but now scientist have been believing time travel is possible based on the physics laws. If time travel is possible, then will it be helpful for human begins to go back to the past. Time travel can’t be worth it because if you change something in the past, it will affect a lot in your future. The people you thought you knew may not be the same people in the future because you change something in the past. There are different theories stating on that there may be parallel universe and other versions of us.
... important to always move forward with your life. There is no point in worrying about the past because you will never be able to get it back, all you can do is go on and learn from your mistakes.
On the theorectical side, as Mike Garrow notes, special relativity suggests that all of spacetime exist in an eternal 'now' because the finite speed of light means there is no access to information - including notions of when someone else's 'now' is - faster than light can carry it. So, on the one hand, all of history is already written out and so you could contemplate reach back to points in spacetime that existed prior to your local 'now'. On the other hand, light only propogates 'forward' in spacetime ergo without adding exotic information carriers such as tachyons into the mix there is nothing that actually enable the reaching back to occur. The past is blocked by the light cone in Minkowski's spacetime. (Light cone).