My world is small, average, protected, predictable. I have been blessed with that. My parents have given me their every breath to make it so. Up until this point in my life I have taken advantage of that luxury and have tried to escape it. Well, I’m still trying to escape it.
I come in at an overwhelming height of a whole four feet and almost eleven inches and a whopping ninety seven pounds. In addition to that, I am a girl. I don’t look like a seventeen year girl; I barely even pass as a high school student. But I am capable. I understand the fear or doubt that my parents and the outside world may have about me being independent, but they do not understand that these “disabilities” that I may have are just a drive for me to prove to myself and to them that I am capable. I am capable. …show more content…
I had been in club swim long before high school had come my way, but varsity? I don’t have the ideal long, narrow, skinny body that swimmers have. I was the only freshman on our fastest relay team that year. I wanted to play water polo the year after. A sport too dangerous for my small stature. I would get hurt. Why would they even allow someone like me to be on the team, let alone actually play? I was one of the starting varsity players on the team that year. I wanted to fulfil my childhood fantasy of being a lifeguard the summer after. How could I haul bodies that could potentially be twice my size out of the water? How could I save anyone in anyway bigger than I? I was one of the chosen sixty out of about one hundred fifty applicants to be a lifeguard at a small water park in the city next to mine. I was
I come in at an overwhelming height of a whole four feet and almost eleven inches and a whopping ninety seven pounds. In addition to that, I am a girl. I don’t look like a seventeen year girl; I barely even pass as a high school student. But I am capable. I understand the fear or doubt that my parents and the outside world may have about me being independent, but they do not understand that these “disabilities” that I may have are just a drive for me to prove to myself and to them that I am capable. I am capable. …show more content…
I had been in club swim long before high school had come my way, but varsity? I don’t have the ideal long, narrow, skinny body that swimmers have. I was the only freshman on our fastest relay team that year. I wanted to play water polo the year after. A sport too dangerous for my small stature. I would get hurt. Why would they even allow someone like me to be on the team, let alone actually play? I was one of the starting varsity players on the team that year. I wanted to fulfil my childhood fantasy of being a lifeguard the summer after. How could I haul bodies that could potentially be twice my size out of the water? How could I save anyone in anyway bigger than I? I was one of the chosen sixty out of about one hundred fifty applicants to be a lifeguard at a small water park in the city next to mine. I was