Personal Narrative: How Soccer Changed My Life

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Have you ever felt like you love something, like a sport, that starts changing you differently and is exhilarating? Often when I play soccer, I feel that everything in my mind is gone, problems, temptations, and so on, and I feel happy. My experiences playing soccer for some time taught me that everything I achieve and do well, is from God. It also helped me grow as a person by seeing how people play different ways, either being mad, disrespectful, calm, having fun, respectful and playing with passion, changed my ways to be compassionate to people because you never know what they have been through. Playing soccer for the last 2 years has made me change in a way, seeing new people and seeing how different people are when it comes to soccer. The …show more content…

Almost every day, my friends and I would play soccer at the futsal playground at a school, and we would have fun, but some people made the fun go away and made the game more competitive when it shouldn't. Playing with people that make the game more competitive seemed like you had to play well and hard to play with them, so I had to aimlessly step up my game. 2nd semester of high school as a freshman, I was told that I should join the high school team, but I would only make it to jv 2 and sometimes jv 1 starter. I still wasn't very good yet, had no confidence in the ball, I got scared when people came to watch, and I felt like I could perform better than I was doing. That season we lost many games and only won 3 games. It was a nice experience to see what high school soccer was all about and made me want to focus on it even more and practice harder. After finishing my first year of high school and starting my second year, I decided to push myself to work harder. After the first high school season, I felt pretty good about myself, knowing that I improved just a little, but it's still not enough to go varsity or

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