Reflective Essay: The Upper Arlington Bears

It all started at softball nationals. My team, the Upper Arlington Bears, qualified for a national tournament in York, Pennsylvania. I can not express in word how excited I was to play and hang out with my team. I thought that this was going to be a great time to get to know my team better because I don't live in Upper Arlington so I'm not as close as everyone else on the team is. This also made me nervous because I didn't want to be left out. The first day was great. We got to go to the grounds the tournament was going to be on and meet the teams. We did this thing where we traded pins with our team logos on them so we could remember the tournament and teams we faced. We would collect them and attach them to towels so we wouldn't lose them. When we got back to the hotels we got easels to put our pins on and decorate. I thought it was really …show more content…
Maybe there was the possibility he'd put me in or he could have apologized. I am way too shy to do that though and that's probably something I'd admit to anyone besides my parents of course. If I would of stood up for myself the whole situation could have been different. I just wish I would have had the courage to tell him instead of have my mom yell at him. I should have kept my tears to myself because if I would have my mom wouldn't have been so upset and she wouldn't have yelled at my coach. Still today I am mad at him for doing this. I've tried so hard to get over it but I just can't. He texted my dad and told him to wish me good luck. That just made me upset because I believed he didn't have the right to do this. I overreacted way too much. He was just trying to be kind. My dad has forgave him a little, my mom hasn't but she tries to be optimistic about the whole situation, but me? I just can't bring myself to forgive him for what he did. My biggest regret is not standing up for myself to my