One day after practice I came home hot-headed. The entire way home I sat in the car percolating about a comment my coach made toward me. As soon as I opened the door, I dropped my bags and marched straight up to my mom, looking for some comfort, and told her that my volleyball coach just called me lazy. I told her the story just how it happened.
It was towards the middle of practice and the team was working on blocking. This involved swift lateral movement from the middle of the net to the end. My coach was supposed to rotate myself and my teammate in and out of the drill, but I ended up with a longer time slot. The first few block jumps were quick and my timing was perfect. But as time drew on my legs became heavy, like dragging around two cement blocks. It became harder for me to be efficient in the drill. I couldn’t move as fast as so I was late closing the block. My coach saw this as laziness and spat at me, “Why don’t you stop being lazy and close the block.” My cheeks immediately became flushed and the steam sizzled out the top of my head, as she said this in front of my entire team. I felt like someone had stripped me of a piece of clothing. I was hardworking, dedicated, and focused on the tasks each drill presented. I was anything but lazy.
My definition of lazy …show more content…
For example, it is represented by the average couch potato, and the technology guru who sits behind his computer with a bag of Lay’s potato chips. Marchak describes the epitome of technology as “prime evidence of physical laziness as seen in American waistlines” (Marchak, 2010). She declares that obesity is the result of a loss of physicality in human lives since technology has brought upon a change in the nature of jobs. In other words, more jobs are computerized and simplified by machinery so less labor is required. In this example, laziness is defined by a decrease in physical
It was towards the middle of practice and the team was working on blocking. This involved swift lateral movement from the middle of the net to the end. My coach was supposed to rotate myself and my teammate in and out of the drill, but I ended up with a longer time slot. The first few block jumps were quick and my timing was perfect. But as time drew on my legs became heavy, like dragging around two cement blocks. It became harder for me to be efficient in the drill. I couldn’t move as fast as so I was late closing the block. My coach saw this as laziness and spat at me, “Why don’t you stop being lazy and close the block.” My cheeks immediately became flushed and the steam sizzled out the top of my head, as she said this in front of my entire team. I felt like someone had stripped me of a piece of clothing. I was hardworking, dedicated, and focused on the tasks each drill presented. I was anything but lazy.
My definition of lazy …show more content…
For example, it is represented by the average couch potato, and the technology guru who sits behind his computer with a bag of Lay’s potato chips. Marchak describes the epitome of technology as “prime evidence of physical laziness as seen in American waistlines” (Marchak, 2010). She declares that obesity is the result of a loss of physicality in human lives since technology has brought upon a change in the nature of jobs. In other words, more jobs are computerized and simplified by machinery so less labor is required. In this example, laziness is defined by a decrease in physical