Have SOME Athletic Talent

            As a lot of you may know, I am not the most athletic person out there. I mean everyone probably realizes it since you are all in gym class with me, and in those classes I basically just trip over myself and I do not help my team at all. I am not trying to be hard on myself, just keeping it real… Anyways, I was not always so spaztic and un-athletic; my younger self was not too bad at soccer or dance and I always thought I did pretty well in games or recitals. I guess puberty basically turned that around, and while other people gained things to help with sports, my body decided it would make me a little more spazzy than usual. When I’m playing the sports that I do, I look around at the other people on my team and think “One day I want to be able to have skills like that.”

            I don’t think this is that much of an unreachable goal, if I’m willing to try my hardest for it. But, I don’t know if I have it in me to try as hard as I need to. At the moment, I do dance, soccer, basketball, and lacrosse. If you watched me play, though, you would probably not think I’ve been doing these sports for a couple years or more. In general, I just don’t think I’m an athletic person; I was not born to play sports. The only reason I even started playing sports like soccer was because my dad used to play. I don’t think he was that bad, but I obviously did not inherit that trait… Even though that’s true, I stuck with it for about 10 years and I’m still trying my best now.

            Sports or athletic things aren’t really the problem; I think I have more of an issue with situations where I’m under a lot of pressure. All throughout my life, I have just been awful under pressure and I always crack. Even doing something simple like tying my shoes when someone is watching me turns out to be harder than usual. I end up messing up a lot of times, and it takes too much time than it should. This is a lot like what happens when I’m playing sports- especially games- when other people are watching me. Just the fact that there are so many eyes on me, watching my every move, freaks me out and makes me nervous. Then when I mess up because of that, I feel a lot worse about mistake, even though it’s usually something small. Anyways, I have concluded that sports aren’t really something I should get into seriously, but they can be a fun after-school activity. 

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