The Game of life

In my younger days I liked simple things and I still do. Work smart, not hard one of my coaches for football told me. I was born into a wonderful family, thank God for that they have been very supportive of me. After my last year of middle school i decided I was going to try out for football, and i was convinced I was going to make it. I was wrong after going to a training camp and try-outs where i was cut, soon after a friend of mine told me about a freshman/sophmore team that i could try out for so i decided I would tryout and I made it. At the end of the season I was asked to go play for a private high school in annapolis, at that time it just was not an option with my grades after all that occured our family moved to the easternshore of maryland where we moved into a small town called easton. I was ready for football season during my sompmore year,  i went to all the workouts, and trained hard. I was a lineman not the fittest of them all, but i was determined to play, so I showed up and trained hard. Then one day after tryouts one of my coaches said my grades were not good enough to play so i had to step up my game and managed to get my grades up for next season. I got my report card at the beginng of summer and i did it! I could  play for the next 2 years. i played and me and several other guys on the team where asked to play in the all-star game, which we played and came out on top! At that point i felt like i had to go play college football or i would be a failure… i decided to wait a year and had a scholarship at the end of my senior year but didn't take it because it just did not feel like something I truly wanted to pursue. It was a very confusing time for me. Over the next 2 years I became angry that i lost my spark for the game of football, it was diminishing and harsh. Everything i knew was based around a team effort and hard work,blood,sweat and tears. I grew in these experiences with Football, but I didn't realize at the time that it wasn't my only guiding light in life. And when you don't see that, things can get rough. There was and is a reason I grew through team work, perserverance and sometimes harsh critisism. It has made me who I am, and I've been able to use it beyond just the game.