A Step In My Shoes

 There is a lot of dreaming that we do on a daily basis. From the moment we are born, even as infants we dream and have visions that sometimes come back to us years later. Of course you cannot remember your first couple of years as an infant but there was always a brain working its own ways in our small undeveloped brains from day 1. I think the most creative idea I've ever had is realizing that I should play sports. I was around 4-5 years old when I had an image of me being the best shortstop in my town. I just started going to school the same year and seeing all the posters of professional athletes hanging up in our classroom made me think I can be an athlete. Just like that I started playing baseball.

 One big reason I played baseball is because I wanted to be just like Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees. All I hung out with were baseball players or some type of athletes that liked winning and being the best at what they did. The first year I played baseball I learned a lot about myself. Not to mention I had to change my handedness on the field from my left to right hand to I could be a shortstop. After I adjusted to that, me and my team had an impressive season. I never thought I would be that talented at baseball, I really thought I was going to stick with this sport forever. However, after 7 consecutive years of dedicating myself to baseball, I got tired with the sport and decided to see if had any more talents with athletics. Baseball gave me the confidence and the thought that I can do whatever I put my mind to.

The same year I quit playing baseball, I had another bright idea which happened to be playing football. At this point in my life I was roughly 12 years old and I did not ever play a down of football ever before. I just knew that I was a big body and athletically inclined to be a football player. After a year of playing the sport, winning the city championship , and making nationals I fell in love with the sport. I had to be thankful for baseball though for giving me a start with sports and keeping me out of trouble as much it could. However, when I got to high school everything changed. It wasn't pop warner anymore, I was a high school football player well known throughout the school. My freshman year was definitely the most enjoyable year because even though I didn't participate in the game watching my HS win the city championship against our rivals made me work even more harder for when it became my time. The student athletes that went to college from my HS, I admired all of them as they all had a drive and passion in them that made them champions.

As I look back on my HS football career I think I we definitely could have won a championship post the 2009 era. I should have been more of a leader off the field even as an underclassmen. A lot of people looked up to me because I had good grades and made plays every week on the field. I always thought I was a good leader until I learned that you need to be a leader at all times and not only on the field. As much talent as we had on our team we weren't making the best decisions and sometimes that would put our team or coach in a bad predicament. However, I think everything happens for a reason and although me and my class never won a championship together it just motivates me to become a better leader and football player. You live and you learn. Now as my freshman year season campaign is reaching its end I will be back to training and get back to being the scholar athlete that I am. I have big dreams to be successful either as an NFL wide receiver or an accountant and I will not fall short of my goals because I came too far to throw it all away now. Like I learned from baseball when I was a toddler, I can do ANYTHING I put my mind to.