The Importance of Enjoying a Place

The importance of enjoying a place

Soccer is a sport that consists of eleven players in each team, a goalkeeper and 10 field players; you need to score by placing the ball inside the goal. Although soccer is a sport; for me it was a dream once I started playing, improving, and having future on it. It is not just the most popular game on Mexico, but in the world. A place you look as special one day the next day is just a place without color, without shine.

One day I was at my house watching T.V. and playing videogames, it was a rainy day and I didn’t want to go out, it was cold, without sun; a bad day to be out with friends. One of my friends went to my house after the rain, he asked me if I wanted to go to play soccer, in fact I didn’t want to, I was sleepy, tired, with the desire to be on bed all day long, but he convinced me of going out, we arrived at the field, there were a lot of friends of my friend, but no one I knew, it was uncomfortable to be there without knowing someone. We started talking, meeting, saying names, positions, etc. After everything, we started playing; first I was confused; I didn’t know what to do because I didn’t understand how they played. I used to like soccer, but it was just a sport for me, nothing special, but after that day that field made me saw soccer as a way of having fun with friends, I started to meet people, to make new friends, we played for two or three hours, but the knight came in, I didn’t want to go to my house, I met a person who knew about soccer, who knew how to play, who knew the importance of team work. The next day I went excited, I knew it would be amazing, the court was excellent, the smell of the grass, how green it was, it was just something I can’t describe; I’d never see a ...

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...cause I couldn’t play as I liked to, I couldn’t have the ball as I used to, everyone was mad and trying to make a goal or to demonstrate he was good, he was better than any of the other team’s player and we stopped playing good, I was trying to make a fancy move, I was just trying to ridicule a player of the other team, and it wasn’t just me. It was all the team, all my friends.

I learned we need to enjoy the game, the field and how the grass touches you, play for fun, just to make it as a hobby and as a sport, we don’t need to demonstrate who is the best, or who can do better tricks or better moves, we just need to look around us, enjoy the nature around the field, all the wind, the rain, the sun, everything in that field who made us be what we were; friends. we all were friends and we stopped playing as friends because of other people who were trying to hurt us.