Personal Narrative Essay On Losing A Knee

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Losing a knee Junior year was one of my best and worst years, I was back on the wrestling team and I was motivated to have a good year all around. This did not go as I had planned. In the middle of the year I dealt with relationship problems, my grandma getting cancer, and I think what affected my self the most besides my grandma, was tearing my meniscus during wrestling season, that easily affected me the most junior year. It was around December to January that I had torn it, it was a match against Ridely, I was extremely exhausted, and also extremely excited. Warming up felt so long and I anticipated going out to the mat even though I had thought I would lose. When the time came for me to wrestle, I was exhilarated, I felt like I was ready to jump out of my skin and wrestle, the adrenaline was pumping through …show more content…

After this I also had hardships of healing this new knee but, looking back it wasn’t as bad as I made it out to be. While being slightly crippled and in pain and having to adjust to my knee again, was hard and left me depressed and melancholic, I got through it. I got through my knee being wrecked for 4 months. After all That pain of healing it and dealing with working it out, my knee is one hundred percent better, in fact it is my Better knee of the two. It’s stronger and moves a lot faster than before and this seems to be the reward for the hard times it had to go through. Looking back I should have gotten my knee fixed with surgery sooner because i did tear it more while wrestling after it had happened, but those painful experiences will never be forgotten and I think they were needed. In the midst of things, even though I had destroyed my knee, my life felt like I was living in a volcano ready to erupt with scalding hot lava at all times, I persevered and my knee, and myself, are stronger and more sturdier than ever

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