Walking Away

In life you are going to make many decisions. And it's not just adults that make decisions, everyone starts when they are very young. It may not be the biggest decision of your life but in the future everybody has to make those right choices. Choices like do i want to go to college or not? I think sports can keep a lot of kids out of trouble. In middle school one of my friends played basketball with me and yes she was kind of a trouble maker, but she was a good kid. The next year they cut her from the team and guess what? She ended up getting pregnant and dropped out of school. Just think what kind of future she could have had if only she made the team that year.

When your really busy you don't have time to get mixed in with the wrong group of people or start using drugs or cutting class. It's really easy to give into peer pressure to your so called "friends." You have to make up your mind and say if I want to be successful then I'm going to have to start taking the right path. When your "friends" ask you to cut class or go do drugs this won't be a problem because when those kinds of things come in your way you will walk away.

There has been many times while in sports that my friends have asked me to do something I don't want to do. I've already told myself that nobody can make me do something that I don't feel comfortable doing. If my friends look at me different just because I don't do drugs and I don't drink then they can. I'm in control of my destiny and I don't want to end up being a nobody. I know that if i start going down the wrong path in life then all my dreams of playing sports in college will be going down the drain. All you have to do is stand up for what you believe is right and who knows maybe you will be setting an example for some people.

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."