The lights. The noise. The people. Who doesn’t love a classic high school football game? At one particular game, the first home football game of my junior year, my friends and I were all ecstatic to be first-time upperclassmen super fans at the “hawaiian-extravaganza” event. Having arrived an hour early, we wrestled our way into second row seats as everyone else filled in behind us. The sun began to descend as the energy continued to climb, bringing everyone to their feet by the start of the game. Though sparse among the large crowd, beach balls and water guns seemed ubiquitous. As the entire superfan section held its excitement, our wolf mascot grabbed the largest beach ball and rocketed it forward with a thrust of his paw. With incredible
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While this seems like the classic embarrassing tale of high school woes, it represents a message that hit me that day (literally). Before this moment, I had been the stereotypical shy and reserved underclassman, deciding to finally take a chance by superfanning at the first game of my first year as an official upperclassman. However, going through this potential social ruin made me realize that I wasted my high school career always being afraid, always being too scared of judgment to be the person I had always been within. I have struggled thinking I won’t be able to make it through sports and school to the point where I want to give up, but then I remember that I love being involved and being outgoing now. I may be like most other teenagers, but the key to being a stronger person is all in how I take on adversity. Life is about moving on with a positive attitude and growing from the moments that knock me down, (also quite literally, as I continued to fall backwards off of the bleacher seat I was standing upon after the ball had done its damage). I realized that there’s no point in being afraid to fall or in being laughed at because chances are I’ll be laughing right along side them. Accepting the outgoing person within me after the beach ball fiasco, positively affected on my life (and luckily
While this seems like the classic embarrassing tale of high school woes, it represents a message that hit me that day (literally). Before this moment, I had been the stereotypical shy and reserved underclassman, deciding to finally take a chance by superfanning at the first game of my first year as an official upperclassman. However, going through this potential social ruin made me realize that I wasted my high school career always being afraid, always being too scared of judgment to be the person I had always been within. I have struggled thinking I won’t be able to make it through sports and school to the point where I want to give up, but then I remember that I love being involved and being outgoing now. I may be like most other teenagers, but the key to being a stronger person is all in how I take on adversity. Life is about moving on with a positive attitude and growing from the moments that knock me down, (also quite literally, as I continued to fall backwards off of the bleacher seat I was standing upon after the ball had done its damage). I realized that there’s no point in being afraid to fall or in being laughed at because chances are I’ll be laughing right along side them. Accepting the outgoing person within me after the beach ball fiasco, positively affected on my life (and luckily