On the way to the game I felt so excited to finally be playing football again after what seemed like an eternity without it. I was so ecstatic about my game because it was the first game of the season after a long offseason. I had also won the starting defensive-end position just a few weeks before, along with the starting long snapper position. When we arrived I …show more content…
I had to go through five casts and a brace during those fifteen weeks. The worst part about all of the casts was not being able to shower without taking a plastic bag and using it to cover my cast because the first four weren’t waterproof. The best thing to come from all this pain, frustration, and sadness is that I learned to fear injury less and that injury isn’t to make you worse it is to make you stronger. Some people don’t ever understand this concept of injury, but since I learned at a young age to accept injury and come back stronger I don’t have to learn it later in life. Learning this has made me better a person, student, athlete, and son because this concept applies to any struggle or challenge in life you will have to