Personal Narrative: My Flaws And Mistakes In My Life

Everyday comes with a million decisions, and everyday you are expected to make the right ones. To whoever gets every decision right in even one day, I congratulate you, because that is something I haven’t and probably won’t accomplish. Accepting my flaws and mistakes has made me who I am today, and I wouldn’t change a thing. Throughout the variety of good and bad choices one in particular stands superior. The day I decided to stop playing basketball. I had many reasons, at the time, to quit the sport I always despised. I would have more time for homework, since college classes had become part of my schedule, I could get a job and make money, and if I wanted I could help out with the boys basketball team. When I say I despised basketball it seems more extreme than it really was, I actually enjoyed some of it. For example, bus rides with my friends and classmates, developing relationships with my coaches, and being able to mark it down on a …show more content…
It wasn’t until the middle of the season that I realized I was missing something and everyday just seemed boring. Seeing all the videos and pictures of the team made me wish I had played, just to be with my friends and be a part of something. Sure, I had volleyball and softball still, but the constant feeling of family away from family, responsibility to someone other than myself, and dependability was gone for those few months and I missed it. All my reasons to leave seemed not only extremely irrelevant but, selfish, too. I had left my team because I wanted money, or more time for homework, forgetting that the team bonded while doing their homework together, and money wasn’t needed because I was preoccupied with basketball. Everything that appeared so convincing was not at all. I am a teammate one-hundred percent, and I had given it up, something a teammate should never