Why Softball Is Important To Me Essay

It is strange now to think that I had played softball for almost nine years. This is because I don 't really even think about it now. Although I do know that playing sports was a big part of my life when I did play, and it taught me many things that I still apply to my life. The first sport that I played was softball. This was when I was around six years old. My reasons for joining were that my mom had wanted due to get into some sort of physical activity, and the fact that many people from my school were also starting to join. This gave me the opportunity to meet new people and have fun learning a new sport. I had started out playing at the Howard league, which was the closest to my school, and later moved on to playing at Mount Vernon. My sister, Alana, had joined about a year after I did. It …show more content…
Tennis was the only sport that I had played for a year and didn 't end up going back to. As mentioned before, my sister played this as well, but we were not able to play together because we weren 't in the same age group. While this did deter me at first, it wasn 't at all the reason why I decided that tennis wasn 't for me. Most of the reason is actually pretty contradicting to my personality, in that I didn’t really enjoy playing the sport alone. Occasionally we would be put into pairs to do two versus two, though for the most part it was just you versus the other person. I think it made it especially hard that I hadn’t been that into the sport from the start, but on top of that there was also the factor that I didn’t really have anyone to disappoint if I wasn’t performing my best. Looking back at it now, I know that I underperformed a lot, and didn’t try as hard as I probably could have. Taking into consideration that this had also been a very busy time in my life, I had looked at it as though, if the I was the only person who would lose if I didn’t do well, then it was a small