Kickball Research Paper

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On this tremendously important day, the culminating moment of our high school careers, the one we’ve been striving for and waiting for for all of these years, I’d like to talk about another moment that I had on this very field a few years ago. It was a clear hot day, everyone’s eyes were on me, and I was scared out of my mind that I was going to mess up. Only it wasn’t my commencement speech, it was gym class kickball. First of all I’m a little too nerdy and uncoordinated to be good at sports, and on top of that, I was a freshman stuck in a senior high gym class. So I was really sweating, getting ready to kick the ball at home plate. My classmates were sort of rolling their eyes, expecting that I was going to kick the ball two feet backwards and then fall on my face. The pitcher, a really scary varsity athlete, rolled the ball slowly towards me to be nice, and in the moment right before my foot connected with the ball, something clicked, something ignited. Maybe it was fear, maybe it was luck, maybe it was something in my brain screaming “Just do it,” but I kicked the ball so hard and …show more content…
You don’t want to trip on your face and make a fool of yourself when everyone around you is sprinting ahead, right? Do you remember when we were in seventh or eighth grade and we thought the seniors had all the answers to life? Then six years passed, full of struggle, growth, hardship, friendship, laughter, tears and a billion other moments and memories that might have seemed insignificant at the time. When we add it all together and look back as the door closes on it all, we have seen that all that we have done, all that we have gained, how beautiful it all is. Even after making it through all of that to graduation, we’re still not invincible, we don’t have it all figured out, and sometimes we feel a clueless and helpless as the seventh graders we once