Personal Narrative: How Soccer Changed My Life

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I focused almost all of the first seventeen years of my life on playing ball. I loved the image and friends that came with it. Soccer was the only life I knew and it gave me a sense of belonging and gratification. That life ended a couple of weeks before my senior year soccer season when I destroyed my knee. At times I wonder what my life would be like if that never happened to me, but I’m glad it did. Losing soccer pushed me to evolve in a minor hobby of mine, painting. I was relatively good at drawing growing up and I enjoyed going to the Art Institute. I remember being mesmerized by the strokes and colors in the impressionist’s wing, but art resonated to me solely as a hobby. However, the absence of soccer left me thirsty for an alternative

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