Personal Narrative: My Last Place

Last Place I have enjoyed playing basketball ever since I was a young lad – which is quite a good thing, because I would otherwise sit around all winter doing next to nothing, most likely. It is not that I feel accomplished when I am being lazy. The fact that wresting is really not my thing would be the root of me rarely doing productive things during these cold months if I did not play basketball. I once saw myself as a wrestler, but I am sure my parents and all of my other supporters did not, even though they sometimes acted like I had hope in the sport. As many optimistic people as I had in my life, though, the best evidence to support whether or not I was a wrestling star is the tall, wide-based fourth-place trophy I supposedly earned when I was in kindergarten that stands proudly in the center of …show more content…
It is not like I have transformed myself into a state champion wrestler or even a respectable one, as my kindergarten year of school was the only season I wrestled. However, I do feel like I have brought myself to a point where I can compete with others around my age in sports of many kinds and have success. Improvements in my physical abilities have come over many years, but in my opinion, a vast majority of them have come since I began participating in my school’s fairly strenuous strength and conditioning program less than three years ago, indicating the value of working hard. My ancient wrestling trophy gives me a sense of where I used to stand on the spectrum of physical ability, and I am able to use this to compare with where I stand now, allowing me to realize how far I have come, as well as how I have done so. So, this second reason I still have my wrestling trophy from many years ago is also symbolic, as it reminds me of the importance of hard work and