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2/27/19
The year was 2013. I was 10 years old, in the middle of an intense battle. “Charizard go!”
I said as my palms were sweating heavily awaiting the result of the attack. Charizard flew in at
Pikachu to hit him with a fireball attack. With a KO in the 4th round, we won. We WON! The
crowd was cheering. The bells were ringing. Ding dong ding dong. “You are the winner!” That
subtitle played over and over like a broken record in my small 10 year old mind. I had beat the
final challenge on pokemon. I was the best player. I wanted to walk around and flex on all the
lame Pokemon players with my cool badges and exotic pokemon. But there was one obstacle in
my way, soccer practice…. Soccer practice didn’t only take up my time but it required a lot of
effort. As I thought about how to deal with this problem a light bulb lit up inside my head. “I
could just quit” I thought. A giant smile, an almost universe sized smile stretched across my
entire face. I dreamt how many video games I would be able to play and how much fun that
would be. I had been doing soccer for about 6 years. And yet I decided right then and there that I
should drop soccer mid way through the season to focus on more important matters like
Pokemon and Mario. I walked up to my parents and proposed this dilemma, and of course my
more than favorable solution. However, my parents had a different idea. Shutting my idea down
quick, they told me that I could not just quit something and that I need to keep playing.
I was furious I had to go to soccer practice. My ears and nose started pouring out steam
like a forgotten pot on a stove… Okay maybe that’s a little dramatic but I am sure you get the
idea. My parents tried to tell me that I could not quit. They tried to tell me that I already made a
commitment. They said I had to persevere through the rest of the season. I didn’t care. I can’t
quite remember what I did after I received this news, but my guess is I tried doing some sort of
protest hoping my efforts will be rewarded and I would be granted my wish. As you can guess
me not caring about what my parents had to say, and my pointless protest still ended up with me
Throughout the next week I went to my soccer practices. I was mad that soccer was
taking up my time. I didn’t want to try my hardest, but I still went to all the practices that week.
We had a game on Saturday. I ended up scoring 2 goals that game but I didn't really care that
much I just wanted to go home. Throughout the remainder of the season I continued to go to
soccer practice. I continued to play in the soccer games. And yet my mood started to slowly shift
like tectonic plates that pull and push land to form mountains. In fact I actually started to enjoy
some of the games near the end of the season and I wanted to get better. This was a really big
surprise to me because just a couple weeks ago I wanted nothing to do with soccer. The only
thing I cared about was staying inside and playing video games.
During the final games of the season I continued to play and I actually got better I started
scoring more goals and I started to try harder in some of the games. Then the season finally
ended I was very satisfied because I had persevered and tried to get better throughout the season.
everything. I chose to not quit or more accurately I was forced to not quit. This taught me a
valuable lesson which is to always persevere and never quit throughout anything in life and to
always try my hardest no matter what. After this experience there have been many times where I
have wanted to quit something. But I almost always preserve like when I no longer want to do
homework, or I don't want to continue playing a sport, or I just want to quit because I don't think
I can accomplish what I want. However I chose to not quit. In life we have to not quit, we have
to put things that we may like aside to focus on something that will improve us as people, push
us to success. Think about it our ancestors did not give up they might not have been the
strongest, fastest, smartest, tallest, or even the most adapted person but they made it, they
persevered, they chose to not quit. We are quite literally living proof of that, which is why we
should chose to persevere as well. This is why I chose to write about this seemingly insignificant
event.
Score: 45.5/50
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