Occasionally friends become similar to a family. One of the best decisions have ever done was sign up for a local soccer team. I was a genuinely shy kid. However, I loved (and still love) soccer. I didn't know at the time how attached I would become to my team and how much teamwork mattered. Assuming I knew beforehand, I would have joined earlier.
To start, I was ridiculously excited when my parents told me that they were signing me up for soccer though I was a little nervous. I reflected on what the other children might determine of me. Would they determine that I'm mediocre, would they laugh at me? Or would they consider me a decent player? What I did know was that I needed to escape my comfort zone and begin something