Being an athlete means not being able to do every school activity you would like to. It means putting everything else behind, school, friends, everything. It means getting hurt but still trying, losing friends because they dont understand, living in you own world and not knowing what goes on outside of practice. Its working hard on one thing to perfect it for hours on end & the only people you talk to ourside of your team is family or might as well be. You have your circle of friends that love you and care but hardly ever get to talk to them. You may pass them in the hall at school but simply have time to say her and keep going for fear of being late its still having your one best friend that you still talk to and having left everyone else for the sport you love. Its forgetting how bad being single can hurt sometimes but a hard pravtice makes the pain disappear, at least temporarily. Its knowing exactly to eat before a practice, exhibition, competition, or game and having to plan everything around those. Its being categorized at school & feeling all alone all the time cause no one you know understands. Its having the physical and emotional strenght built up pver the years of feeling that way not to break down in front of everyone anymore. Its working everday for what you love and never giving up!
Written by: Brandi Michelle Lewis
August 8,2008
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