Personal Narrative: The Sport Of Cheerleading

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Cheerleading was a fun sport to do but you have to be able to get in front of crowds of people, and I was not able to do that. I had joined to try and get rid of my anxiety attacks they had gotten so bad and I didn’t what to do. Anxiety is different for everyone so not all the other cheerleaders knew how to help me when i was having an anxiety attack. Some of the other cheerleader and also coach Paad had or has anxiety. So they all tried their best with me. All the cheerleaders and coaches were very helpful and patient with me. They knew it was going to be hard and they were with me through my attacks and the good times. They never gave up on me because they wanted to to get over my anxiety. I’m thankful for them, they have helped me. A lot …show more content…

I wanted it to help me so I did it no matter how many I have, I wanted to feel better and not worry about everything. I wanted to be able to talk in front of people and not be scared. So I joined in hopes to get better, but that isn’t always the case. I went to all of the practices and i struggled so much with learning new cheers even if they were “easy” to some of the other girls. In my mind i thought to myself if i can’t learn this as soon as we do it the first time I would get nervous and scared. I had gotten to scared to mess up the cheers or jumps even if they said it was okay to mess up. It wasn’t easy at all but they helped me and took the time to help me learn them and not be as scared when I would go to a practice. Having anxiety is different for everyone so we all experience it differently, it will not be the same from one person to the next. We all have our ways of dealing with an attack. Some might even be on medication for it. There are some people that do not have it and it’s great except when someone that does tries to talk to them and they don’t know how to respond. A lot of teens have anxiety when they are in school and it makes it hard to do the things that they need to do to pass a

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