You never know what you have until you see somebody wish to have it. As a junior on the high school baseball team, the thought of others your age or younger not playing isn’t a big deal to you. That’s how I was until the team went on their yearly hospital visit to see the people staying there and hopefully brighten their day and give them a fresh face to talk to. As the day went on we begin to go to the pediatric ward and it was my turn to visit the resident in the room, in there was a boy no older than 6 years old, watching the Washington Nationals game on the tv. His parents stepped out of the room when they saw the team in the hallway and were begging that one of us would go in there to talk to him. At first he didn’t even notice that I was even in the room with
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As the inning came to a close and the commercials finally began I asked him for his name. Evan. Then it was my turn to start asking the questions and he would give the type of answers I was expecting, long explanations and really fast talking. I was in shock, a 6 year old is more extroverted than a 17 year old in high school. Then we got to talking and the next thing I know, I hear a knock on the door which meant it was time to go, but before I left Evan had one last request. He wanted me to sign his lucky baseball, a baseball with Bryce Harper’s and Max Scherzer’s signature on it, and I was just in disbelief. I just met this kid not even 10 minutes ago and he wants me to sign his lucky ball that only he could touch and have the signatures of two allstars? I was honestly hold back tears as I did it and after I gave it back to him, he put it back in his case with my signature showing, I’ve never been one to really feel lucky to be where I am and what the sacrifices were made for me, but after that. I
As the inning came to a close and the commercials finally began I asked him for his name. Evan. Then it was my turn to start asking the questions and he would give the type of answers I was expecting, long explanations and really fast talking. I was in shock, a 6 year old is more extroverted than a 17 year old in high school. Then we got to talking and the next thing I know, I hear a knock on the door which meant it was time to go, but before I left Evan had one last request. He wanted me to sign his lucky baseball, a baseball with Bryce Harper’s and Max Scherzer’s signature on it, and I was just in disbelief. I just met this kid not even 10 minutes ago and he wants me to sign his lucky ball that only he could touch and have the signatures of two allstars? I was honestly hold back tears as I did it and after I gave it back to him, he put it back in his case with my signature showing, I’ve never been one to really feel lucky to be where I am and what the sacrifices were made for me, but after that. I