This is how I began to love sports, it seemed as if they were most pleased when I excelled in sports and school, and as a ten year old I chose to focus on sports for obvious reason. Which instilled a love of competition and football that ultimately got me to Louisiana –Monroe and to having free college. During this time I discovered another love that I still carry today, fishing. I was quite good at bass fishing for my age and I loved going with my grandpa. I learned so much from him then and I still do now when we go out for hours at a time in the baking sun talking about life. Fishing is why that old man is my best friend and has made me appreciate people and life more than I would have without it. According to an article from familyfacts.org the time children spend in day care is associated with negative effects in social development, I never attended day care. My grandparents moved once I was five to be closer to us, they lived ten minutes up the road and they lived on a lake. So in a way the reason I am an effective communicator can also be contributed to fishing with my …show more content…
From realizing my true potential in athletics to realizing my true love of girls a lot was going on. As hormones flooded my body I began to grow, a lot. I went from being one of the smaller kids in school to being the tallest by far. Ten inches in one summer equated to success in athletics very quickly. The better I got the more my piers looked up to me and I began to forge my leadership skills further. Another very important person came into my life at this time as well. One of the girls I dated had a big brother who was the star running back of our small school and would be the first player to play division one football in our schools history. Our parents were close through church and he took on the role of my big brother early on in middle school. He taught me a lot of how to be not just a leader, but how to be a good one. He is now finishing up his training to be on Delta Force the United States Army’s elite counter terrorism unit. Needless to say he knows how to work hard, he passed that to me. Once I was old enough to workout he would take me and his younger brother who was four years older than me to workout. I would work out to total exhaustion and I loved every second. His little brother is now a receiver on the Houston Texans so I had to work hard or get left behind. This hard work and never quit attitude is what I plan to use to become a U.S. Army Ranger after