My Last Time When I Shot Research Paper

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I have never been more disappointed in myself than when I realized what a loser I was. I always thought I worked hard and did my best to be better, but that only lasted for a little while. eventually, as time passed, I lost hope and quit. My realization took place when I I joined for softball my junior year of high school. I was thrilled to start. A bit nervous because I did not know what to expect. I watched plenty of of baseball in my life, playing, otherwise, was a different story. Either way, I would give softball a shot. I bought a softball, glove, a bat and everything I needed to sharpen my softball skills. Practice arrived in no time, and I was ready to start hitting some balls.
As practice continued my excitement was destroyed by how terrible I was. Catching the ball was a struggle. I questioned myself and my skills. Anybody can catch a ball, …show more content…

The art lesson, soccer, writing. Pretty much everything. When I was seven years old I begged my parents to let me join in the soccer team. At the end I ended up hating it because I wasn’t scoring goals. When I was eleven, I quit an art program because everything I drew was horrid. I’ve never stuck to anything and worked really hard on it. I might have been good at what I did, but other people were better. That disappointed me. I’ve never learned that progress requires time. Weightlifting helps me realize that getting stronger requires months of hard work, even years. Art has also taught me patience makes better art. Sometimes quitting might seem like the easiest thing, but also the hardest because quitting requires a lot of consideration. Life has no instruction as to when to quit, but if I’ve learned one thing from my mistakes is to be patient. I know I’m not going to be exceptional at everything I do. Someone is going to be better than I am and I have to learn and accept that. All I can try is to be better than I was

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