Why Football Is Important To Me

I myself today am a product created by the principles established by my strict Turkish parents. I never had the levity and gaiety that one would have experienced in a “normal” childhood. I believe I never had a childhood that ventured past participating in recreational city sport teams. From the moment that I became fully conscious of responsibility, adulthood almost seemed to spring itself upon me. Even though as a child I felt that my father, the only apparent guaranteed source of love, only expressed never ending frustration and disappointment.To this day I strive to prove to the person I respect so dearly that I can be the person he envisions me to be.
Born into a culture containing restrictive guidelines, I felt it impossible to comply …show more content…
My passion for the sport has grown infinitely, germinating since I scored my first touchdown in a youth optimist league. Experiencing much needed appreciation and love from the people around me on the football field, emotions I had never felt before due to the absence of these two habitual family ideals in my particular family. Having to quit football my sophomore year in high school, and get a job to support myself, unfortunately due to the guidelines established by my father, I remain eternally grateful for my experiences. Football introduced me into the field of study I aspire to partake in. My middle school football coach was an investment banker and I already had an instinctive appreciation for calculation, entrepreneurship, and money. Having an appreciation for the profession, I have read more about investment banking and the life of finance more than I have read about Shakespeare and Anglo-Saxon literature in my school. My mentality more finely tuned to mathematics and number, I am blessed to have found my destined profession at such a young age. I am grateful for not having to go through what could possibly be a large period in my life searching for my “dream