Personal Narrative: How I Learned To Stick It Out

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I learned to “stick it out” through hard situations and to finish something that I start playing a sport that I hate. When I was in seventh grade I joined my middle schools wrestling team basically for my father. He was the star of his High school wrestling team when he was younger and he really wanted me to do it and love it as much as he did. My father and I have never had a close relationship at all and back then I actually cared about having one with him so I joined the wrestling team I also actually thought that I would like wrestling and be good at it.
I started going to the practices and I wasn’t too thrilled by it all but it seemed like I was doing pretty good at first so I thought wrestling would start to look up for me. After a few weeks of practice I made the varsity team there was one other kid in my weight class so we had to wrestle and, the winner would be on the varsity team and, the loser would be on the junior varsity “J.V.” team. The other kid in my 80lb weight class was even smaller and scrawnier then I was so it wasn’t a very hard earned win but I was happy with it either way because I made the varsity team. My dad was a lot more excited about it then I was of course especially because he didn’t know the circumstances of my win he just knew his son had made the varsity …show more content…
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