How Wrestling Affects Your Life Essay

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Wrestling is like walking blindfolded in a straight, clear path. You think and assume you know what's coming up and next, but something can crop up and put you to a stop. Uncertainties abound in wrestling. Wrestling is the type of sport someone can be winning ten to zero and out of nowhere there on their backs getting pinned. In many ways life is just like wrestling you never know when you can be on your back getting pinned. Wrestling teaches people what to expect in life's tough situations and ways of overcoming these struggles.

Furthermore, wrestling is like a book, you are the writer and everyday is a new chapter. Every practice or match might not go as you wrote in your book but you always have the next day to start a new and improved chapter. Wrestling practices maybe the hardest things you experience, they may make you feel like your dying and just want to give up. Just like in life sometimes we go through certain situations that are made to break us but because of those hard practices we have learned to overcome the challenges life throws at us. Life is
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The way wrestling does this is by putting you in live simulations to show you how tough life maybe; it gives you an actual experience so when it does happen your ready. Life and wrestling is a roller-coaster there are so many ups and downs that’s another thing wrestling teaches you to overcome. A lot of times you may get taken down or even lose a match but you can't let that affect you life because then you will never be able to wrestle as good. Just like in life if something bad happens you can not let it determine how your life is going to be. Sometimes in life it might feel like there is no way out but wrestling teaches people how to always find a way. wrestling is like a plant, It will never grow unless planted and nourished. Just like in life if you do not get your act together and plan things out your plant will

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