Failure In Soccer

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Throughout our childhood we gather, retain, and forget information. The memories that are left are often the ones that mold us to the people we are today. My unforgettable memory is when I was playing soccer and I tore my ACL in 8th grade, this was the moment I experienced the feeling of failure. Failure is a feeling that people can look back on and say they do not wish to experience again, I am no different. I remember the sweet smell of dew and morning on the fresh grass that Saturday morning. The field was marked in white paint to indicate the court. The feeling invincibility coursed through my veins. I stepped onto my stage and watched the audience admire me and the hot spotlight beaming down on me. The referee blew the whistle and the final quarter of the soccer game began. A fellow teammate passed the checkered ball to me and I ran towards the goal. We were down by one goal and I knew I could make the shot, I could hear the crowds uproar and hollering my name as I sprinted. The air combed it's cold fingers through my hair as a ran past defenders. I felt my heartbeat accelerate the closer I got to the goal, I could feel and see the destination in the distance. I sprinted as fast and agile as my legs could tolerate, then out of the …show more content…

I put in a hundred percent effort for a year but I could not get my knee to budge past 90 degrees. The summer of freshman year I went back to see the doctor who preformed the surgery and he said the cause was scar tissue blocking my range of motion. Two weeks into my start of freshman year I went to undergo my second surgery to have the tissue removed. When I returned to school after days of being absent after the nine week grading period my grades plummeted. I was on the brink of failing from elements of my control. Again I swallowed the capsule of failure and trudged on to change my future. I did physical therapy with renewed determination and pulled my grades up to

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