How To Quit Football

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A difficult situation that challenged me and made me reconsider my values was deciding between quitting football or quitting cross country. I have been in my school’s cross country team and track and field team since freshman year. Rising through the ranks and making a name for myself as one of the school’s fastest runners and captain of both teams. Along the way, I had caught the attention of the head track and field coach, who also happened to be the football coach. He had asked me if I was interested in joining the football team. Reluctant at first, I ended up joining because I wanted to earn my triathlete patch for the varsity jacket, I planned on purchasing. I had no idea how football worked, but since I was promised varsity and a small role, I …show more content…

When practice was over, I returned to school to fulfill my boy’s league duty and work in my school’s bookstore. I would work until it was time to practice for football. I would practice until about 6pm and walk home to arrive at 7pm. Throughout the whole day, I would not eat. This way of life carried on for a few weeks until I began to feel the effects of fatigue. I came to the conclusion that I needed to quit one, eliminating the possibility of earning the triathlete patch. I decided it had to be football because it was what was causing the most toll on my body. Quitting, however, was the hardest thing for me to do because I have not quit anything before. It took me a few days to muster up the courage to do it. One day, we did yoga before practice. At the end of the video, the yoga instructor had said “What you want, may not be what you need.” It was that phrase that convinced me that even though I wanted the triathlete patch, I do not need it, especially if I was destroying my body in the process of getting it. When I quit, however, I felt so ashamed. I could not face what I have done, even though the coaches understood why I had to

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