Personal Narrative: Gymnastics

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On March 23, 2016, I thought my life was over. It had been a long time coming of course, but once the day came, so did the realization of reality. I began to doubt everything I had worked so hard to figure out and the decisions I spent so long forming. Now, no one ever said it would be easy to leave gymnastics after 12 glorious years, but nobody warned me it could be this hard. Gymnastics had been my heart and soul since I was two years old. I lived, loved, and breathed gym all through preschool, grade school, and well into junior high. However, gymnastics did not come naturally to me. I was never the best in my class and learned very quickly that the Olympics were not in my future. Still, it was all I knew, and became my constant in an

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