Physical Therapy: A Short Story

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How exciting life is right now. I have my whole life ahead of me, literally. I am a senior in high school with only a mere two weeks before graduation; I have great friends and good grades, and I couldn 't be more excited for what my future holds. I can’t wait to get into college and pursue a career in physical therapy. The funny thing is, I wouldn’t even been considering any of this if it weren’t for basketball and one of my best friends. When I was in eighth grade I couldn’t care less about school or what I was going to do after high school. I didn’t even plan on finishing school, once I was sixteen I was going to drop out. To this day I don’t understand why I didn’t want to finish high school, I was only in jr. high and yet I was completely …show more content…
She gave me that confused look again once she realized that I wasn’t kidding.
“How many papers do you have to do?” she asked. “I don’t know just a few I think.” I said as I looked through my bag looking for the folder I kept all my English papers in.
When I pulled it out Gabby’s eyes got wide, the folder was over an inch thick with blank worksheets in it. She looked at me with wide eyes, sighed, and said “Okay well you better get …show more content…
None of them were hard, but Gabby sat there making sure I finished all my work. Of course, it took a couple days to get all of them done. Luckily, I finished all of the worksheets over that weekened and handed them in to my teacher. Thankfully my teacher was great and accepted the work and put it all in for full credit. Honestly, I think she was just glad to see I was starting to put some effort in. She got all the grades in that Monday and I was able to play in the game that week.
After seeing how easy it was to get that grade up and finish my work, I started completing all my assignments in that class. I even put forth more effort into some of my other classes as well. I believe I finished Language Arts with a B and Algebra with a C or B.
Since eighth grade I have put significantly better effort in all my classes. I have wanted to do better and get better grades and to never be afraid of not playing basketball again. Since then I have kept a 3.4 G.P.A. and continued to play basketball. My team even went to State my junior and senior year. I have enjoyed school a lot more since getting into high school, I like the classes more, but have always been a little lost in English classes since I didn’t pay attention in jr. high. Thanks to basketball, and some good friends, I can look forward to my life beyond high

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