I have always had a problem with people telling me things like "You're too small" or "There's NO CHANCE you can do this". Ever since my school life started, this has been something to get me absolutely fired up. It pissed me off. It made me want to do the only thing I
As a kid starting off in sports. I played baseball as a little kid. Kids told me I was even too small for such a simple game. I got mad, and every single game I played, I would remember that, and that soon fueled my way into becoming the best. I wanted to be the A-Rod, I wanted to be the Derek Jeter. Nothing was going to stop me. Soon after that, it just became the love of baseball. Something I still wish I never lost. Anyway, the point is, when you make it your mission to be what YOU want to be, you will accomplish great things.
I can think of a good friend of mine who may or may not have had this problem, but she has definitely made it her mission to be the best she can be. She is currently a junior at Cave Spring, and she has taught me a lot. She wants nothing more than to be the best goalkeeper, and whatever she does in Volleyball, player she can be. Her determination has been such a great thing to see, and truthfully, I don't think it really affected me til now.
She strives to be at her best, at all times. She has put long, hard hours of complete work towards both volleyball and soccer. She's on a U17 league for Volleyball, and I know it's because she has worked her ass off to get there. She's playing up because she is THAT good. She worked to become that good, and she's, as the Frosted Flakes tiger says, "Earned her stripes". She also went and made it her mission to be on Varsity soccer last season. Well, unless I was trippin' on something REALLY heavy, she did that too. She gave it her all, and she has persevered through the strenuous things, and she earned that Varsity time. Yeah, she didn't get what she expected but that just shows us sometimes things seem to be better than they actually are, I guess.
Another friend that you would have had to be CRAZY to say he couldn't, but still can be used here because it shows what hard work can do, is a man who is now a senior at Cave Spring. He has been working as hard as he can for the longest time now to be the best running back he can be. Well, he put so much time in going to weightliftings, and working in his own time to get there, and he wanted to prove that dreams come true when you have a goal, and you work for it.
He's been the starting Tailback at Cave for 3 years now, and he has been running well the whole time. Credit goes to the offensive lines too, since without them he goes nowhere, but the thing is, this year, he's running at about 200 yards a game, and this past Friday night, he broke a few records. One of these records just happens to have formally been held by Tiki Barber. The rushing yards record at Cave Spring High now belongs to this man. He also now holds the touchdown record. He has worked his tail off in order to erase whatever crazy thought of doubt someone might have had in him. Some can say he's not that good, but let's face it, Tiki Barber was good, and this man broke his record, soo I think he's a little good (I think this is a major understatement). If someone told him he couldn't, he took away the thought of it.
Come to think of it, people did say we would not be good. The past 3 years, Cave Spring was never thought to have a good season. My freshman year was the first year of this, which is also his year has starting tailback. Team went 10-3 overall. Regional Championship. He, along with many others, grew tired of people bashing on them, and wanted to make a statement. They showed up, and shut people up. The next year, everyone thought they were done again, 8-4. Region Runner-Up. Again, they showed up, and said "We are not taking your negative shit, and we're going to be the team we KNOW we are!" This year, they're oging on a 5-2 record, and they are working their tails off. This man, along with the many people who have made it possible to achieve this status have made Cave Spring football a name in the state of Virginia.
The moral of this post is when people get in your face, when someone looks down on you saying you can't, or something related to that. You have but three choices.
1) Let is consume you, and believe what people say.
2) Let it piss you off, and bitch, cry and moan about people saying it, but do nothing.
3) Let it piss you off, let it put a chip on your shoulder, and make it your mission to prove the bastards who said you can't wrong.
I don't know, but I'm thinking most of you would pick choice 3.
Basically, don't let the world tell you who you are, the world is wrong 99.999999999% of the time anyway.
Love you guys,
TJ
"I may stumble & I may fall BUT I won't give up til I get it right because I'm NOT a quitter! I get up, dust myself off and TRY again!" - I don't know I got it off of Status shuffle
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