Personal Narrative: How Soccer Changed My Life

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There comes a time in everyone's life where you need to set your priorities and make your dreams become your reality. My step dad once told me “ if you want something in life, you need to work your ass off, because someone somewhere is.” This really got me thinking and its a life moral that I've lived by. If you want to pursue your passion whether it be in art, music or dancing then it's better to start now then too late. You don't want to wake up one day and realized you've missed your opportunity to make your dreams come true. For me, my life and dreams revolves around sports, but soccer in particular. I live and breathe soccer just like the rest of my family. Everyone in my family has played soccer throughout their life at a young age. From soccer clubs to travel teams, and through their high school years. I didn't start to fall for the …show more content…

Growing up hasn't always been so easy with my mother having me at 16 and being a single parent, Sometimes I’d have to go to work with my grandpa, or grandma whoever it may be because we couldn't afford a babysitter at the time, sometimes I would have to stay home by myself at a young age. But Every Time I had a chance to go to work with my grandpa I’d instantly say yes without hesitation. Reason being every lunch break I would hear of my grandpa's stories of his friends back in Mexico when they would play soccer in the streets of the plaza. Or on the dried cracked fields under the glaring sun that felt like I was melting internally when I went to Mexico, but for my grandpa, it was practically nothing. I felt like as if I die any moment of heat exhaustion, while they would be able to play for hours at a time. I haven't experienced a field as the one my grandpa talked about, This was new to me I was used to playing on freshly cut wet grass on bitter cold temperatures and slowly start to feel the numbness take over my hands and

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