I was holding my knee, crying, and in so much pain waiting for the trainer to get to me so he can take me out the game… again. I had to stop playing what I loved to do every day of my life for eight months. In those eight months, I was in rehab doing exercises that were difficult to do and also watching my teammates play while I was on the sideline, cheering them on in the games. One of the feelings I had felt when the doctor had finally ratified if my ACL was torn was hoping for the best, but expecting the worst possible…
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” One of the biggest setbacks and failures I had faced in my life was during my high school volleyball season of junior year. The kickoff of the season was quite simple: go to practice, earn a spot to start, and play hard. After I had succeeded in earning a spot on the varsity team I actually started as a bench player thus I didn’t earn the spot to start on the court. However, at our first tournament, one our starters, Tyler, had injured himself and so I was the next in line to take his spot.…
Have you ever been so scarred that you cried? Well it all happened a few years ago but I still remember it like it was yesterday.…
Last winter, my grandmother got breast cancer. This took a hard toll on my whole family. The doctors said that she was only in stage 2 and that it would be cured with radiation. My grandmother had to go to radiation everyday, 5 days a week. This was extremely difficult on my family.…
I went on but never wanted to get off but it came… I was on the couch staring TV Dad wanted me and my brothers to get in the car to go to Chili's I’m not all shaky about it because we go there every Saturday, So we got in the car went to Chili ’s I Got this, Cheese Burgers with pineapple We had to race to Islands for Mom, Avy and Gigi [ My Grandma ] and we got to see Star Wars The Last Jedi, once we got home there was a clueless present on the floor I opened it up and you cannot believe what it was, A puppy this was the best day of my life but we still had to eat gigi though she was cute like everyone else…
I was 23 before I was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder. As far back as Elementary school I knew that there was something “off” in the way that I processed information. That my ability to do well academically was somehow hindered by not having certain tools that I needed, tools I wasn’t even aware existed. In high school, I began to augment my deficits with strengths. Where my grades were lacking I made up for it through creativity; I excelled at art and photography.…
The first thing I noticed was the color. It was faded in one section. The different layers were now becoming visible. The pattern of the couch reminded me of it. I sat in the spot.…
“Go! Go!” The shouts of spectators echoed off of the walls of the pool. The smell of chlorine filled the air. I was leaning over the rope, screaming at my sister as she took her last strokes into the wall.…
I first met nate the beginning of the summer before freshman year. I was 14. he had just turned 21. he was home for the summer and since I was often over at this younger brothers house- we were together often and I have never fallen for anyone so hard.…
My whole life I’ve been a little different. From the clothes I wear and the way I present myself, to the way I look at the world, I’ve always been somewhat peculiar. Not peculiar in a bad way, but in an interesting, provocative kind of way. I am the weird greenish-yellow crayon in the box that no one ever uses. I was born in Anchorage, Alaska.…
Jackie Robinson once said “I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” This was my motto as i moved to the USA from Egypt at the age of six years old. Although i was not as old as i am now it was still tough. Thanks to determination and persistence i was able to not only make it in school but understand the language and speak it. It had been a year after my brother was born, i had made a lot of friends in kindergarten, had my dad’s side of the family here, i had finally learned to read and write a little bit of Arabic, and was about to go to first grade.…
Imagine a cool, crisp, January morning waking up at my best friend’s house, I found myself tired. Knowing the events I would face today I would have needed a lot more energy than I had. Regretting that I’d stayed up all night, I got a shower then continued to get warm clothes on. As my dad pulled up my friend, Sydney, and I jumped in the car. Heading to the skating rink in Hohenwald, I was excited.…
When people are just in your ear constantly nitpicking about things you don't want to hear it gets under my skin. I truly hate criticism to a passion and I really can but can't explain why. I don't like when your parents are constantly telling you how to do better or change but telling you their way. I feel like they just don't believe in me enough to stop. They nitpick about my life and school to the way I act and who I associate myself with.…
When I was twelve years old, I went to the fair in another city. There were numerous recreational facilities, and the most memorable one, which later become myfavorite, was the Drop. In truth, I was scared when I first decided to go on it because the drop felt like a free fall. When I got to the top , I was wondering why I had forced myself to do this extreme game. This reflects a conflict I often have between my thoughts and my ambitions Often there is something I want to do, but I give up because of cowardice.…
Anyone that has ever lost their smartphone knows that it is like walking through Antarctica with no clothes; the amount of chills you get are almost unbearable. You start frantically looking everywhere for it, fearing the worst. Your heart pounds with panic as you race up and down your house. Or in my case, racing through the Serbian woods.…