My Defining Moment Essay

The constant stress that my world revolves around, is blinding. When I mark something off the list, something else appears. And it's this never ending cycle that is so hard to escape, that never allows me to think about anything other than what I need to do. It's the stress from the days that happened and the days to come that causes that spot under my eyes to turn puffy and black as if someone had punched both my eyes. It's the throbbing I feel in my head as if my brain was trying to find its way out to tell me to relax. So to the best of my ability I try to run from the headaches and the stress. However I'm not so much as running away as I am running towards something. Because I know that there is one place that has the mystical ability to take me into a different dimension that has a gate that once you pass it, you can feel the stress, the pain, the hurt, vanish in nothing but an instant.

So I always long to be back to the place where the natural beauty surrounds and welcomes me, because this is the place where I close my eyes and suddenly see everything so clearly. And game day is the day that I can feel the adrenaline rushing through every inch of my body, where I can picture all the amazing plays I will make and the jaw dropping moves that my feet will accomplish. I imagine, and I imagine until finally game day has arrived. Game day meant that the time had come for me to put on my silky uniform that waited for the day to be reconnected with the field . And it was pure beauty the way my silky red glamorous uniform complimented the field, and the way the field complimented my uniform. It also meant that it was time to suit up with my cleats that are perfectly creased and beaten in a way that lets people know to look out for me. The same cleats that would make an imprint in the grass that I like to believe will be there