How sports have impacted my life is it always gave me a time away from studying and gave me something fun to do. The sport I’ve played since 3rd grade was soccer. What soccer did for me was help me get out of reality of this world. I come from a community where drugs and alcohol is “normal” having at least 2 hours away from my reservation really helped me stay aways from the Crab Analogy. “Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome, and there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape,” Michele Malkin an American conservative blogger, political
