Personal Narrative: My Scar Story

My scar story

“Your setbacks are the platforms for your comeback” everyone at some moment in their life has a setback, but it’s the way we go about this setback that defines you as a person. This quote demonstrates the difficulties I had to face and overcome last year in having to sit on the sidelines watching my team and how I used this injury as motivation and a learning experience to help me return to the game of basketball stronger and better than ever, this is my scar story.

My story began last year in march it was the very first game of basketball for the season and for me it was just another ordinary routine game of basketball, I taped my ankles like normal, warmed up like normal and played like normal little did I know that this ordinary game or basketball would change my outlook and values in life so dramatically. It was the fourth quarter of the game and my team were down by at least ten points, in desperate need of points I attacked the basket even with multiple defenders in front of me in hope that one of the defenders would foul me. As I went we up in the air for …show more content…
By seeing my friends succeed at basketball made me determined to get to the gym and start working on all muscle groups so that when I returned I would be the best player on the court. I was made to go to the gym twice a week and watch my team practice 3 times a week I also had to watch and support my team when they played, it was very hard for me to remain positive, but by watching my team it made me desperate to return so in a way watching what I was missing out on made my recovery quicker as It would make more