What makes us who we are? I believe the events throughout our life create us, build us and mold us into who we are today. Throughout our lives, there are certain events in which define us. They make us upend our beliefs and totally rewrite who we are. These new methods of how we live our lives then become part of our Code of Chivalry. Humans even long ago possessed these understandings of what they are and are not supposed to do. Take King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table for an example. These knights living in the 5th century AD produced the idea of a Code of Chivalry. Their code was more tailored to the knightly lifestyle, but the main idea has carried throughout the ages. I personally have had my fair share of belief altering events …show more content…
This included basketball, soccer, cross country, a little bit of baseball, and tennis. At a young age, I didn’t really understand the concept of being able to rely on others. I also didn’t really realize how to fully communicate with others effectively. I was the shy kid who never branched out beyond the select few friends. This continued all the way through elementary and middle school. Sports were the only place in which I could truly be who I was. When I was around others who had the same common interests as me, I found it a lot easier to keep up a conversation. Conversations outside of sports rarely lasted very long unless they were my close friends or people I wanted to be included in my circle of close friends. This all changed as soon as I began high school tennis though. When the fall of 2014 came around and I was insanely nervous about my first year of high school, who wouldn’t be though? Tennis helped me transition from having only two grades in one school to having four. The team dynamic helped me become accustomed to being the new freshman on the block. Tennis also helped me form new friendships, and learn to break out of my shyness when it came to new people. Without tennis, I feel as if I would be a completely different person than I am