Importance Of Football In My Life

For many years, schooling to me had nothing interesting to offer. My whole life, football was the center of my universe. I grew up playing football from age five and continued all the way until my freshman year of college. It was the only thing I knew how to do best. Football was my world. When I graduated high school, I wanted to get on with my life and begin my career as a soldier in the United States Army. Instead, I stuck with football. My first year of college football I received a devastating concussion and I was faced with a decision I did not want to make; to continue with the sport I love, or value my health. This decision would single handedly be one of the hardest choices I have had to face yet in my life.
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I saw how much I disappointed my mother and that hit me hard. Any kid wants to make their parents proud and I couldn’t fulfill her expectations for me. I ended up winning my appeal and was allowed to return for my second year of college. The fall semester came around and I had what some call an epiphany. I wanted to prove to myself and to the university that they made the right decision to allow me to return. The first couple tests of that fall semester I received good results. I saw I scored well and I told myself that I can in fact do well. After those first few tests I just wanted to push myself to get even better grades, and I did. After the first semester I earned a 3.3 GPA and was lifted from the academic probation. I knew I had it in me. After that semester I was aiming to do even better the next semester and I obtained a 3.4 GPA. I was what my mom called a “grade chaser”. I was asked to speak to the freshman class for those who were on academic probation, just like I was. I gave a speech about how I was in their place and what I did to overcome adversity. From that position I took a whole 360 degree look at where I was from where I was a year prior. I now wanted even more from my