How Football Changed My Life Essay

On a depressing Wednesday night in August, the day before Freshman year began, I was forced to make a decision. This decision would change my life for the rest of high school. I had never been forced to make this big of a decision. I just wanted to get a break from football and take a year off. Yet, it has been a huge part of mine and my family’s life since the day I first started. I lived and breathed it when I was younger. Now I just want a break. It is the day before the regular season practices start and I am laying in my bed thinking about how I am going to tell everyone that I am not playing football. I heard the door open and then close which means my dad is home. It is time to go tell him football is going to have to wait a couple of years.
I was fifteen at the time, and I was a two sport athlete. I played both football and basketball my eighth grade year. There was one thing I had been thinking about a lot while making the decision to not play football.
“Am I too small and skinny for football?” I thought to myself.
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That is when it all hit me at once. Seeing all of my friends with those jerseys on, hearing the roaring student section, and seeing the team get hyped before the kickoff. I have never felt so left out and so upset about something in my life. But then again, I have never felt so motivated and determined in my life. That night I swore to myself that by the time I am a senior, I will be a big part of the team. I will dedicate all of my time into getting bigger, stronger, and faster, so when the time comes, I am ready to go. I look at life with the feeling that everything happens for a reason. I feel like the decision I made is going to come back and work out for the best, because I am more motivated now than ever before. It takes motivation to be something in football, and I have promised myself multiple times that I am going to be something my senior