Personal Narrative: When I Quit The Basketball Team

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I feel like I made a big mistake when I quit the basketball team. At the time it seemed like the right thing to do I felt like they didn’t care about me and every time I did something right I felt like they would be jealous of me. But I realized I don’t have a valid reason for feeling that way, well I did at first but when I kept repeating it to myself it was a rally stupid reason. And maybe deep down inside I had trouble dealing with my own insecurities. I thought after I quit I had a plan on what I was going to do like get up early and go shoot in the gym, take the bus home and do my homework, go to the YMCA, then go back home and run on the tread mill. I was all set in my head on what I had to do to stay in shape but in reality I just couldn’t do it; I can’t sleep, I don’t eat, and I barely even talk to anyone anymore. I just feel lost and the worst part about it is when …show more content…
And I just want to be back on the team but we went through the exact same thing last year and even for me I feel like the situation is just getting old I’m tired of putting stress on everyone and I don’t want to do that anymore. I understand I need to grow up and take responsibility for my own action but people mess up some more than others and we all say thing we don’t mean at times and that’s what happened with me. I don’t want any of the girls on the team to feel like I

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