High School has been really rough for me at times. Being a student athlete is tiring and often I feel as if I can not balance both my athletics and my education. Having eight hours of school followed by three hours of softball practice really wears me out and in order to cope with my schedule, I would either compromise my softball performance or my school performance. I do not mean to sacrifice one for the other, but it is almost impossible for me to be my absolute best with both softball and school. Due to this, many people think I am dumb or that I am lazy. I am not. My albatross is that I sometimes take the mean words people say to me to heart and, in turn, I view myself as much more inferior than I really am. I think it is time that I realize that no one truly understands what I have to go …show more content…
Looking back, I can now notice many incidents in which I let what someone said to me hinder my goals and defile my view of myself. For instance, I had to do a presentation for my U.S. Government class and I initially felt confident about what I was going to talk about. However, right before I began speaking, one of my classmates turned to someone else and whispered, “The dumb girl is about to present. Haha.” I instantly felt deflated and I ended up missing a few words in my presentation. It is not that I did not know what I was talking about, but hearing people call me dumb really made me believe I was for a second. Even some of the softball players give me a tough time about my hitting and my game performance. As a senior in the law program, I am now required to do internships at least once a week. Internship can go from the beginning of the school day to a little bit past the end of the school day so I miss an hour of softball practice from time to time. My coach and some of my