Personal Narrative: My Life As A Baseball Diamond

Exposure to most of the traumatic life experiences that have whittled away at some of my peers has, thankfully, evaded me; however, even subtle experiences can revolutionize a previously held belief. I have learned to not ever take an experience for granted and learn from each of my mistakes. Each and every person only has one life to live on earth; why waste something so precious by making the same mistakes? As a child I was forced to grow up rapidly. Responsibility, maturity, discipline, and tenacity came quicker to me than the majority of my peers. Consequently, I became a serious and cynical child, both a blessing and a curse. I was an athlete - tall and thin, light and quick - and I loved baseball. Moments of enormous pressure could instantaneously turn one into a legend on the baseball diamond. It was there, on that field of dreams, I learned a life lesson which proved paramount to my development as an athlete and as a man. One’s senses were immediately assaulted by a multitude of stimuli at the Little League fields: the oppressive heat and humidity, the gritty feeling of dust that seem to habituate the very fabric of park, the can of Wintergreen Skoal the Left …show more content…
Never again would I be anything less than my absolute best. For too long I skirted by because of my natural athleticism and intellect. From that day forward, giving less than my best was not an option. Because of this, whenever I do something, anything, I give everything which I am capable of giving. There has not been, nor will there ever be anymore “skirting by.” I can honestly say that I understand what is required to be a successful athlete; it takes grueling hours of work and pushing oneself past all boundaries imaginable. However, the application of this epiphany does not end with athletics; it percolates into all other aspects of my life. In the end, no amount of success comes without an equal amount of