Personal Narrative: A Hard Life

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There has been many songs saying it is not easy to walk in someone else’s shoes, it is not easy being green, or even the exact words ‘it’s not easy being me’. Sometimes life is hard but there is always a way to get through; I am not going to complain about how hard life has been or how I have had a rough life. However, the truth is, my life built me up to be the leader I am today. I started to play softball at the young age of eight and I fell in love with the sport. To this day I continue to play but there was a time when I was not sure if I would ever be able to play again. In the summer of 2016, I had suffered from shoulder dyskinesia, meaning my shoulder blade slid out of place and it had to be put back in place. On top of that, the nerves in my shoulder did not know when to start or firing causing pain and discomfort. Most of the time I was in therapy or at doctors trying to get it fixed so I could return to playing softball even with the fear that I would never be able to play again. …show more content…

I cannot count how many times I have had to hold back tears and how much courage it took to hold them back. That courage existed everyday I stepped foot on the field knowing I could not play but I stayed because I was a leader on the team. In all the years I have participated in softball, I have noticed girls breaking down and losing the leadership they worked so hard for to an injury. I knew I could not let the loss of leadership happen to me after all the hard work I had put

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