Something I care about …….

Ever since I was little I never wanted to work hard, I never wanted to try, I always would try to find an easy way out. I was like this all throughout elementary school, middle school, and the first three years of High School. All this changed my senior year and it was all because of one thing, wrestling. I started wrestling junior year, and that year I was demolished,  it was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me. Every match I played I lost all of them, what was worse was that these matches were in a tournament where around 200 people are watching you. I couldn’t handle the embarrassment so I left the team after a month. However, even after quitting I still couldn’t get over the losses, I would always think about how embarrassing it was, but this embarrassment turned into motivation. I was so embarrassed that I wanted to get good at it and make a point to everyone. So I started working out I wanted to be prepared for next year and I thought if I packed muscle I would be a better wrestler. A year passed and the wrestling season came back around, I was still the same lazy kid but this time I was motivated. After the start of the season, I just focused on wrestling and nothing else, I would go all out in practice every day I would never miss any practice. At one point I would wake up around 5 in the morning, go for a 3-mile run then do 200 push-ups and 100 situps then go to school. After school, I would have practice until 6:30 then after my practice I would go home and run another 3-miles, 200 push-ups, and 200 sit-ups. But all the hard work was worth it because I was able to place 4th in the city. What suprissed me was that my academic was getting better as well after I started working hard for wrestling it made me work hard at other things too, it was a domino effect. In conclusion, wrestling saved my life.