Personal Narrative-It's Time To Play Softball

What is the hardest decision you have made in the past two years? Have you ever felt terrible for doing something good for yourself? When I was 16 years old I changed summer traveling softball teams to make myself better so that I could play softball in college. I had played on the team that I was leaving for 9 years and my dad had started the team and we named it the Beatrice Drillers. I loved playing with that team because they were all my friends and I had played with them for so long. The summer of 2016 we got a new coach and he was more of a laid back coach, which meant practices were not down to business like they should have been. Fast forward a few games and we were not playing very well and it seemed like only a few girls cared about playing and being competitive. I could tell that it was going to be like that all season, and at the time I wanted to play softball in college, so I really …show more content…
Obviously if the parents find out, then girls are going to find out also. Going into the weekend before the state tournament we were playing in a tournament in Beatrice and as soon as I arrived I could feel that something was wrong. I walked up to the team and no one really said anything kind of like the awkward silence when you make a really loud noise in the classroom and everyone looks at you. Eventually the atmosphere turned into sassy judgements flying around the dugout, making me feel like I was not wanted there. So during the whole hour warm up and game only two out twelve girls had talked to me and the two girls that had talked to me were going to the Nebraska Elite team with me but the other girls on my team did not know that. At that point I did not even want to be there or go to state because I felt very judged and outcasted for something that I was doing to make myself