Why Som Is Important To Me

Imagine sitting with a group of your closest friends. Girls that have everyday you see each others blood, sweat, and tears. And then they just leave you. That is what happened to me last year. We had just finished choreographing our impressive states kickline when my coach told us to come and sit down. She felt as if we were not practicing like a team that wanted to win. As a competitive person who puts my all into everything, I was immensely disappointed in my team. The captain then spoke up and said that we did not want to compete, just do games and fun events. This shocked me. It was never part of my plan to not go to States. My favorite part of
Pom is States and I love the feeling that you get when you walk on and off the floor with the crowd cheering and knowing that you killed that performance. When we took a vote, It was another girl and I that raised our hands saying that we wanted to compete. This was a big step for me. I learned a lot about myself, and other people. …show more content…
Partying was not my thing, and neither was anything else that they were doing so I mostly kept to myself. When I raised my hand in that circle, I felt the glaring stares and the weight of peer pressure. Fast forward to the next day, the team decided that we will just do fun things and the two of us that did want to compete could go and perform with junior varsity. I stayed calm, but in my head I was enraged and offended. My teammates were leaving me in the dust. I earned my spot on varsity, a supposedly competitive, kick butt team. Now I was to go back on jv because some girls just wanted to hang out with their friends and party? I felt as left out as the