Sports Medicine Specialist Narrative

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If someone had asked me what I had wanted to be a year ago I would have said a sports medicine specialist. Ask me what I want to do now and I might say a pediatric psychiatrist.
My interest of being a sports medicine specialist could have started at a young age with my avid interest in sports. I started off joining ballet at age six, then to doing soccer at age eight, and then to cheer and swim. Soccer interested me for a while, but by the time I was fourteen the sport no longer appealed to me. While reading this it seems as if I was not committed and indecisive about what I did. Which I was and will soon come to realize that in my junior year of high school.
Two characteristics I tend to have is learned helplessness­ a term I learned in

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