I believe there are no coincidences. I believe that everything happens for a reason. When I was about 8 years old, I was up in the air on what sport I wanted to pursue for the rest of my childhood life. I had tried soccer, basketball, flag football, baseball but nothing really clicked for me. That is until my cousin had a birthday party at an ice skating rink. I had never really skated too much before and I never thought too much of it. However, it was something about that day skating that introduced me to ice hockey to me. I instantly knew that was the sport I wanted to play and that night, I told my mom just that. If my cousin hadn’t chosen to have a birthday party there, I would probably never have pursued the sport and would have completely
