Essay On How Fishing Changed My Life

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Growing up school came first, I grew up about two miles from IUS and went to elementary school at Mt. Tabor. I played baseball in the fields behind where I had recess, and ran around the fields and school for cross country practice. When I got home after little league practice or cross country practice, I had to sit down and do my homework before I could watch television or go back outside. School wasn't important to me though, I didn't put any effort into school and didn't enjoy school.
Fishing was a release. I could just sit and relax, not worrying about school or homework. In many ways I can see now how fishing has helped me become a better writer and better person. When fishing if something doesn't work you can retie something else that can catch fish, I wrote a very bad first rough draft and decided to …show more content…

My biggest problem wasn’t that I didn’t know what to write about, I just couldn’t put my thoughts into words, I couldn’t find a good place to start. So, I would close my eyes and imagine something fishing related to take me away from the computer screen for a moment to find myself and put my thoughts into words. No sooner would I do this would the ideas start flowing from my mind into my fingers which put them on the screen just as I am doing now. After writing a paper I would imagine myself catching a fish, getting my trophy, or getting a good grade. After all the work of my first draft, I retied and created something that I am fairly proud of, I have caught many fish in my life but the most memorable ones are the ones I tried my hardest for and the biggest. The better the paper the better the grade and odds are, if I got an A on a paper it is because of fishing. I don’t mean this in a way where I just use fishing in my good writing, I use the methods I learned from fishing to make me into the writer and person that I am

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