Personal Narrative-I Didn T Get Your Way !

I Get It I’ve learned many lessons throughout my life. My parents always told me at the dinner table, “Don’t chew with your mouth open! You sound like a cow!” to which I always stopped. I got what they were trying to do. When I was even younger, I would cry if I didn’t get the toy I wanted. My grandpa would not tolerate it and he would tell me, “You can’t always get your way!” The more he told me that, the more I wouldn’t do it anymore and then I would get it. Those are a few examples of some basic manners and rules I was taught by my elders when I was little. However, out of all of those sayings from my parents, grandparents, and even people I barely knew, there’s one popular phrase that took me a while to understand. Sometimes your best just isn’t good enough. During freshman year at my old high school, I knew from the end of 8th …show more content…
I was on the team during the last two years of middle school and was very confident my style of play would earn me a spot on the team. During JV tryouts, we did basic drills to start things off. 3 on 3, running suicides, jump rope, shooting drills, passing drills, etc. I’m not going to sit here and say I was flawless, but I thought I did very well and so did all of my friends and teammates. These tryouts went on for about 3 more days, and at the end of the final tryout, the coach posted the list of who made the team. As we all went over to check the piece of paper, my friends seemed not very excited that they made the team because from going to all the summer league games and practices, you’re basically guaranteed a spot. I couldn’t attend many of these drills because I had a job at McDonalds over the