Things I Sacrificed To Be Successful In Life

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The things I sacrificed to be successful in life I’ve sacrificed a lot of activity, sports and friends that I loved the most and I did what was best for me but it was hard for me to do when I really cared about it. I sacrificed these activities so that I can go further in baseball to provide for my mom and dad, so that they can have a rest from working and so that I can return the favors for all the sacrifices they made for me. People sacrifice something to help out their family or to provide for themselves and giving up on something that meant a lot to them but, I also sacrificed a lot of things and how it led me to that decision and whether or not if it was right for me or if it was not right for me sometimes I regret being held back, I …show more content…
It was not that bad I met new people, made new friends, but the only thing I did not like about being held back was that I had to sit a year out from sports, going into my 9th-grade year I started playing basketball again and I have been playing ever since I was in the 1st-grade but I loved the playing game, but I loved baseball more, so it was time to hang up the shoes I quit basketball to focus on baseball I wanted to go far in baseball and be successful at the game. The things you are sacrificing is for the best I sacrificed a lot of things so that I can be successful in life and provide for my parents and my family when I get older and so that my parents will not have to live paycheck to paycheck, it also gave me more time to grow and become more mature also more time to get better at the sport and I want to go to college playing baseball and get a scholarship through baseball so that my parents will not have to pay for

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