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Personal Narrative: A Career As A Football Player

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Journey for direction In the late spring semester of my senior year in high school. I decided to take a risk with my future. All throughout high school I, identified as a football player. From a freshman I was placed on varsity and throughout my career I contributed heavily in games. Glaring into my history of sports I naturally believed college football was the route for me. During my final season as a high school student. I a major family set back. Lucky for me one of my teammates could not bare to see me leave during the middle of the season. He offered that I stay with him for the finish of the football season. I accepted his offer with much embarrassment and shame. For the first time the spotlight of being needy that I had been dodging all of my life finally caught up to me.
I remember sitting at his kitchen table feeling alone and depressed. As he and his mother flipped through freshly glued college recommendation letters. I could feel a wave of emotion hit my mind. It seemed like the letters were endless, people must have loved him to death. I was loved on the field but that was not enough. A lump of anxiety formed in my throat as I began to follow my emotions into the pit of fear that lined my stomach. Submerging in my thoughts I was disturbed by a light vibration coming …show more content…

Keep lifting weights, get good grades and prepare as though I have already been accepted into a school. Easy to hear, but without my father physically present to keep hold me accountable it was even harder to do. Gritting my teeth out of anguish each night followed by dreams of acceptance letters and scholarship calls. My routine was set and perused out of fear. Waking up before the birds I would go lift at the school each day at 4:45 am. Taking care of my body was first priority, while constantly feeding my spirit positive energy. Flipping back and forth between the thin pages of the KJV bible the books of proverbs, psalms and 1st

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