Sports cards taught me all I needed to know in life. At 10 years old, I wasn’t your typical young child. The enjoyment I received from studying on the subject of sports figures would be the largest component of the delight I had on Saturdays away from the demands of school. This became something that I never grew uninterested with and I would always be eager to learn as much information about them as possible.
Just like clockwork, it would become a monthly ritual, where my sweet mother would drive me miles out of her way to a little sports card shop in River Oaks. In this place, I became extremely fortunate enough to find a friend in a complete stranger. When you walked up to the front door a suffocating, putrid odor of cigar smoke pervaded …show more content…
I would find a nice quiet spot in the corner behind the shed and for that one brief moment in time believe that I had transformed into one of those players on the newly acquired card that I had neatly placed in my back pocket.
Just recently, my mother came across my shoebox of long-forgotten sports cards. At that moment she had a vision this would be a way for me to create a little extra money on EBay. As I sorted through these cards for the first time in years, it became astonishing to me at everything I was able to remember from so many days ago. To my surprise, I recalled the identify of faces on the cards by name even before I gazed at their name on the top.
In addition to those memories, this experience gave me a way to remember the lessons that have proven to be important to myself even in this day in age. Consequently, it shaped me in the path I have chosen for my life today. One of the valuable lessons I learned turned into finding a strategy to make myself better academically, therefore resulting in my improvement of organizational skills. Reading the backs of the cards and memorizing all the stats and other information taught me more about geography by being able to identify teams and where their locations were throughout the United …show more content…
The valuable knowledge that I gained gave me the opportunity to have additional stuff in common with people of similar interest and overcame many fears I experienced at such a young age. If it took me weeks before I went back he always questioned me about why I was not coming. Transforming this child in that moment of life he became able to remind myself of everything I had overcome to achieve success. The message he conveyed next was something that still rings true today. He would sternly say, “You never have to show anything to anybody in this life but yourself.” Looking back, he had a very valid point. Furthermore, I had already proven to people around me that I was able to learn skills that would be an asset later in life. I just had not proven this lesson to myself quite
Just like clockwork, it would become a monthly ritual, where my sweet mother would drive me miles out of her way to a little sports card shop in River Oaks. In this place, I became extremely fortunate enough to find a friend in a complete stranger. When you walked up to the front door a suffocating, putrid odor of cigar smoke pervaded …show more content…
I would find a nice quiet spot in the corner behind the shed and for that one brief moment in time believe that I had transformed into one of those players on the newly acquired card that I had neatly placed in my back pocket.
Just recently, my mother came across my shoebox of long-forgotten sports cards. At that moment she had a vision this would be a way for me to create a little extra money on EBay. As I sorted through these cards for the first time in years, it became astonishing to me at everything I was able to remember from so many days ago. To my surprise, I recalled the identify of faces on the cards by name even before I gazed at their name on the top.
In addition to those memories, this experience gave me a way to remember the lessons that have proven to be important to myself even in this day in age. Consequently, it shaped me in the path I have chosen for my life today. One of the valuable lessons I learned turned into finding a strategy to make myself better academically, therefore resulting in my improvement of organizational skills. Reading the backs of the cards and memorizing all the stats and other information taught me more about geography by being able to identify teams and where their locations were throughout the United …show more content…
The valuable knowledge that I gained gave me the opportunity to have additional stuff in common with people of similar interest and overcame many fears I experienced at such a young age. If it took me weeks before I went back he always questioned me about why I was not coming. Transforming this child in that moment of life he became able to remind myself of everything I had overcome to achieve success. The message he conveyed next was something that still rings true today. He would sternly say, “You never have to show anything to anybody in this life but yourself.” Looking back, he had a very valid point. Furthermore, I had already proven to people around me that I was able to learn skills that would be an asset later in life. I just had not proven this lesson to myself quite