Soccer Changed My Life Essay

change in a year, and how much can happen. Last year was truly full of surprises and challenges. Before Christmas break my group of friends separated. We were once six members and then we went different ways. I stayed with two other friends, while the other three moved in to a different group. Around February one of the friends that left came back to us, and is currently one of my best friends. Then we were a group of four, but we got into a fight with one girl, so we went back to being three.…

off the cacophony coming from my alarm clock. I trudge into the bathroom to take a shower where I see a despondent face staring back at me in the mirror. Before I know it I am sitting in traffic on my 2 hour and 15 minute commute to my office when BANG! An 18 wheeler truck smashes my rear bumper. While exchanging insurance information I yet again see a reflection of my morose face in the tinted window of my car. An hour later, I step into my office, I am greeted by my boss. While he vigorously…

learning and life changing experience, which I shall never forget. It all started when I went for my annual physical awareness. Since my birthday was in May, I have an appointment every year so my doctor could check my weight, height, vision, etc. As I get into the clinic and acknowledge what was going to occur, my thoughts started to fill in. Deep down in my heart and mind, I knew my results wouldn’t be as great as I wanted them to be. Since I was a younger, my mother always took care of my…

including myself, I lived in Palm springs my whole life,thinking I had the perfect life with my family memebers coming over all the time and having parties or just watching a soccer game on the t.v. but when 8th grade came that’s when the divorce happen between my parents and everything went all downhill from there.Then a family tragedy happened and nothing was the same ever again. My mom side of the family now hates my dad side of the family.My aunts and uncles from my dad side don’t even talk…

chair, and force my eyes to go across the pages. Okay, not literally, I am over dramatizing, but I really did not like reading, until one day a book I read changed everything. In the late Autumn of 2008, my mother was searching through the Scholastic Book Club catalog that was from my school library. In it were many books that I quickly dismissed as boring, lengthy, and pictureless. My interest at that time was not in reading but primarily in video games and playing baseball but my mother…

a few Muslims, and a few Catholics, but the majority of the people in my circle were either professing Protestant Christians or raised in a culture of Judeo-Christian beliefs. I’ve always enjoyed talking to people about their beliefs, especially when they differ significantly from mine, but it was hard to do this in the small southern town where I was raised. I moved away from Evans in the middle of my freshman year because my dad got a new job in San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio is one of the…

It was the end of my sophomore soccer season on Junior Varsity. We didn't win a single game and got blown out by large margins game after game. It hurt me to leave the field on our last game with so little success in the entire season. I was deeply disappointed and wanted deep down to have more success . I knew next year was different I was going to pour my heart and soul and make the Varsity and move on from this year. Thats what I did the next summer I showed up and early to every day of…

As a child, I was never really set on what I wanted to be when I grew up. My ideas changed from being a doctor, lawyer, or even a policeman many times while I was young. The one career that really caught my idea was radiology. I thought that if I went into radiology, I would make mad bank and be set for life. The only thing that mattered to me in that time of life was having fun. If I wasn’t having fun, I’d be angry. When I was a young boy, I was full of energy and bouncing off the walls. I was…

it’s to be successful in life. Whether it’s with soccer or my education/career goals, my main goal is to be successful and to be someone in this world. I am currently a sophomore at Mission Hills High School and for me, going to college is a dream that is yet to be fulfilled. I come from a hispanic/mexican background and no one in my family has had the opportunity to go to a college or a university due to the need of money. I was born in Mexico and was 1 year old when my mom and I came here to…

ALS and CTE: Its Impact on Society Concussions and head trauma have had a huge impact on the sports world, impacting the lives of many athletes by altering their state of mind. Basketball, baseball, football, soccer, boxing, and swimming are just a few examples of sports that continue to impact society in today’s world due to the amount of injuries that individuals receive. Head injuries, such as concussions and head trauma, need to be dealt with great care and precision. If an athlete is…