When a situation occurs and
seems to be turning the opposite way that you hoped, I believe you should stay
calm. Instead of screaming until you lose your voice, stay humble and try to
understand the other side of the story. Put yourself in the other person’s
shoes and try to feel what they feel. Throughout life, many obstacles will be
thrown your way and only you can decide how to react. During my middle and high school career, life
has done nothing to help me. Instead, it has chosen to try and throw me off
balance. Between tests in history to losing friends over stupid reasons like having
stolen their crush’s heart or offended them by calling them stupid.
The main
happening that tested my belief was playing travel softball. Not realizing that
travel would have so many politics incorporated into it, I was left
heartbroken. I played for a travel league for four years and when I tried out
for my fifth, I found out that two teams wanted me from the same league. By the
end of the tryouts, I was super ecstatic knowing that other coaches saw so much
potential in me that they wanted me. Although with my luck, it seemed too good
to be true. The two coaches said they would talk it over of who would take who
and proceeded to make calls and make the players aware who will play where.
Days went by and I wondered if I was ever going to hear from them. My mom saw I
was affected by this so she called them. That’s when I found out they never
talked about where I would go. I was told I did not have a team because they
forgot about me. While my parents screamed at the coaches on the phone, I went
upstairs and went to bed.
The next
couple of weeks I felt like a dead corpse walking. I was devastated knowing
that I wouldn’t play with my friends or even play the sport that over took my
life. I’d find myself crying or even blankly staring into space replaying what
had happened. I thought of everything possible of what I could have done to
make the outcome different but, there was nothing I could do. After I thought
about it intently for hours, it came to me. I have no right to be mad because
it was not on purpose. I then found out from an old teammate’s parent, that an outside
source talked to one of the coaches. The outside source said that I was too
good to be playing on his team and that I should play on the other team. For a
while I was mad at that person, then again realized he wanted what was best for
me even though it was not his place to say anything.
I ended up
switching to a different softball league and was thankful that things had
happened the way they did. The whole time my parents screamed and lost sleep
over it. I could not change the situation. I compared my parents to myself;
they looked terrible and lacked sleep. On the other hand, I felt alright and
had slept fairly well. Because my parents didn’t stay calm, they started
unhealthy habits. I believe that by staying calm and humble things will work
out in the end, even when they seem like the world is going to end. It does not
end. Instead, life goes on.
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