Personal Narrative: Overcoming Failure

The first time in my 18 years on this earth that I can say that I really experienced failure was during my freshman year of high school when I tried out for the basketball team. I came into my freshman year of high school thinking I was very prepared for freshman basketball. I thought I was prepared because I had played aau basketball previously for multiple summers and had known and played multiple times against the guys I was competing with for a spot. Well I thought wrong because during the first day of practice I was surprised by the intensity and realized I was out of shape. The first day of practice shocked me because the intensity of the practice was something that I had never experienced before. With the combination of the non-stop …show more content…
As the two months started to pass day by day, I was beginning to dislike basketball more and more. By the time November came around, it was time for the second round of cuts. I would be competing with and the kids who played football and they were the guys I had known and played against multiple times. I knew that they would be stiff competition. In the end I ended up being cut from the team and it was one of the worst feelings I have ever had in my life. It hurt so bad because of how much work I had put into the sport of basketball. Most of my life had revolved around basketball with my dad being an aau coach years before I was even born, and before I could even walk I had a basketball in my hand. Until that point in my life it was the only thing that I knew. During my middle school years I had played football, baseball, and soccer, but basketball was the sport for which I actually had a passion for. Immediately after being cut I blamed everyone but myself, but now that I look back on this situation I can see that I had no one to blame but myself. Until I had been cut, I had never dealt with rejection