Personal Narrative: The Only Possible Things In My Life

the NBA would be the only possible thing I would be able to do in life. It did not happen and I was kind of lost for a point in my life with not knowing what to do with myself.

After I graduated high school I decided eventually to go play basketball at the local junior college and it just didn’t feel the same for me and I lost a lot of confidence in myself in about everything. For the first time in my life I quit a team which was a huge mistake and something I should have stuck out and did regardless. After quitting the team I started hanging out with old friends who weren’t really doing the best thing and who were involved in the streets a lot. We found ourselves drinking and just doing nothing for some months and then I could just feel I wasn’t doing the right thing but continued. I eventually got back into school but still didn’t play basketball and ended up sitting out another year due to not wanting to play but I started actually liking to play again. Hanging out with the same guys who were basically thugs just wasn’t associated with any gangs.

The turning point in my life was when they wanted to start committing petty theft and I knew …show more content…
It was a really stressful summer and I did not know what to do I was lost at that time. No matter how many times I thought about what I wanted to do it just didn’t seem right. I gave my coach a call because he deserved that type of respect and he did not believe me when I told him that I had a baby on the way. I told him I didn’t know what to do and that I didn’t think I was going to be able to have the money to move back with having a child on the way. He called me the next day and told me that he worked it out to the point all I had to do was provide food for myself and everything else would be covered because he wanted me to be able to come back to