Do not let what you CANNOT do interfere with what you CAN do- John Wooden. in the past i have tryed out for various basketball teams and the turnout wasn't good. Either the coach told me i sucked at basketball or go try to get better at this certain skill for basketball, i knew i had to if i wanted to make the team.
well time has passed now and i found something that still makes me apart of the basketball team, being manager for the Gahanna Lincoln boys basketball team. I started my freshman year and my relationship with the players wasn't that good and i really didn't know people from that team that year. but i pretty much knew the coaches more than the players. now it was my sophomore year and i knew the players really good. I knew what i was supposed to do for the team and how i was supposed to preform my duties during the game. its my junior year and everything was great we won the final four and everything was good the players were making me feel like i was apart of the team and nobody told me i wasn't. and there were people that told me i wasn't so i just blew them, off and forgot about them. "And i don't even play, I know that." but i have found something better that i have enjoyed for 4 yrs.
during the games i film the games and basically help the guys get pumped up for the game that will be happening that night. i loved doing it and i would not trade anything for it. and since i have been helping with the basketball team for 4 yrs. and going to practices everyday and every game and every tournament games i get the opportunity to play senoir night for the Gahanna Lincoln boys basketball team. one of the players named Stevie Taylor said to me, " you deserve it, you been apart of this program and helped put for 4 yrs."
now coaches and fans and basically everyone in the past has told me i could never make the basketball team and i had no skills to be on the team.
But you know what?
I have not let these people interfere with my life and i can still be apart of a basketball team but in a different way. so do not let somebody in life tell you that you cant do something but do what you can do.
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that is a good attitude to have. never give up and let what other people say affect you. i hope the basketball team has a good season this year.
ReplyDeleteThis was a great essay, Bryan.
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