Try Outs

Failure, such a sad moment in life. Failure, such an amazing opportunity to come back from. Where I have failed is in my goal of playing the sport I love throughout my high school days. As a freshmen I was a zealot to make the basketball team. I didn't care how hard it was, people can scoff at me as much as they wanted but I was going to make the basketball team. I had worked during the off season to show the coaches that I was willing to put in the work needed to make the team. Try outs had finally come, such a surprise that brand new faces had shown up for this day, while a few were with me weeks before this day grinding it out. With no surprise these people had not made the team. I was part of the basketball team and this gave me the boost of …show more content…
We played tournaments all over the island. Then try outs came and the same thing happened. New faces had arrived on the day of try outs. Some of them looked so despondent as we ran plays that they have never heard of. Having the one year under my belt gave us returnees a bit more confidence since we were the leaders of the team. The season went by and just like that we were back in the off-season. I had lost my interest in basketball during this time as I had gotten a job and had a gotten the taste of money. As Junior year had started I had not been at practice for basketball for so long. As we got closer and closer to try outs I felt like I was obligated to go out there and try out. Then again, I didn't want to be like those new faces who showed up during that day and had not put in the work weeks ahead. I didn't show up to try outs. I wasn't part of the basketball team any more. That jersey number that was attached to me was stripped from my back. I felt like I had a void in my life, no such thing as practice, leaving school early to go games, and the saddest of all was not doing what I loved. In retrospect, I feel like I should have played the