Narrative Essay On Becoming A Basketball

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Knots in my yo yo string figurative meaning says that in life there are challenges that we always at a time have to overcome. In my mind there are so many knots i can barely count them, because there are so many opportunities to give or receive. If you get you either have a knot that is meaningless or one that can hurt you in many different ways. In my story i have two knots one is i can overcome another it has amen a long time to overcome.
I have always thought of this knot even from last year it was being on the A -basketball team there was a couple people that is thought was going to take my spot ( I was on the A basketball team last year) in this i have formed a very bad habit it was comparing my skill to others. I. This i spent more time
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Day after day it became worst first it started with meaningless jokes but I thought that happens to everyone at this table. Two to 3 weeks later it becomes trying to not let me sit at the table by holding seats for another person. I was hurt since some of my best friends sat there and didn't step up and help me. Except for my best friend he tried and talk to the people who were involved in trying to get me off the table. It worked for about 3 days then it went back to the normal routine. Many insults that affected me very much so we're about my weight or how high my voice was . It would come at regular basis until my best friend had to love to the cities, after that it became worse since nobody had my back. It became constant name calling and pushing I felt lonely and thought I don't have true friends. In the end. I found help with the counsellor he told me to move to another table and just ignore them. After 3 days of ignoring them I talked to the main instigator and he understood he probably felt that he wasn't hurting me. I still don't sit with them but I resolved our conflift which is nice sinc most of this kids at the table are on my basketball

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