Why I Want To Visualize A Football Field

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I never understood how visualizing a football field could ever help me to cope and understand my school life. Realizing, how far I am in this game, I have so many more yards and experiences to struggle through. A simple metaphor explained to me by my dad, that I now understand, has put my life in perspective.
Picture a football field as a game of life. It contains green grass with white lines painted on each blade. Each white line represent each year of my life, hard fought and sometimes impossible. Instead, the fight is not over a football, but rather the day to day struggles of high school.
Battling with speech issues at the age of four, my dad used my love of football combined with the way of life to motivate me to push through my struggles.

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