Personal Narrative: When Life Throws You A Curveball

When Life Throws You a Curveball For 12 years I lived, breathed, and slept baseball. I sacrificed attending funerals, birthday celebrations, and family reunions to hone my skills for the national pastime. I would have to be physically ripped away from the game that I loved to stop playing for even a few minutes. The day I was forced to hang up my cleats came in March of my junior year when I was cut from my high school baseball team. Astonishing, my life scale at that moment balanced. There was an immense time slot in my life that I had allocated for the game which suddenly needed to be filled. This empty time slot enabled me to remember other interests I had forgotten. I always had a deep interest in law, specifically criminal law, and I could now foster my curiosity. I now spent my Saturdays with my uncle, a criminal defense attorney, shadowing his work and attending court proceedings. I was there able to witness in awe what transpires in law and order of the United States legal system. I saw juvenile case proceedings and saw how the public defender planted a different perspective in the mind of the judge. He made a juvenile, who by many would have been seen as a menace to society, appear instead as a kid who just made a mistake by …show more content…
I was surprised to see how easily it came for me to teach and bond with the children at the camp, and I quickly became a fan favorite teaching the kids to make an alligator with the glove to field a ground ball or squish the bug with their back foot. The children at the camp also helped me better understand my brother who has autism himself, which I can say brought us closer. I learned a lot about myself at this camp, which I never would have found if I hadn’t been cut from the