Olivia
Wettstein
DWA
May,
2013
Author’s
Note: This piece is for my spring DWA.
When we were told to make it about anything that we wanted to do. I wanted to
write mine about a topic that could get the reader thinking and leave a message
towards them. This is a short story based off of a quote I found. Later in the
piece I relate to a situation I have experienced in my life.
Never give up on something that you really want. It’s
difficult to wait, but more difficult to regret (http://quotes-lover.com/picture-quote/never-give-up-on-something-you-really-want-its-difficult-to-wait-but-more-difficult-to-regret/) .
To me I feel that this is a quote that tells
you that if you are trying to get something that you know you love; you just
felt that it is taking too much time, Always keep going because like the quote
says in the end you could end up regretting if you ever give up.
Cheer is my passion. Always has been
since 5th grade. It was my eighth grade year and I knew that high school
cheer tryouts were coming up soon, but I guess that I didn’t see how fast they
were really coming in reality.It was the day before tryouts and I
guess it really hit me that now I really need to show all these judges my
talent and why they should put me on their cheer team.
After a week of cheer “workshop”, sweating
and hard work it all comes down to this last performance and showing the judges
that spirit inside of me. Standing in front to the judges feeling numb due to
all of the nerves, only because I didn’t want to mess up right in front of
them. I would rather mess up during the past week of workshop. After my tryout
I felt so much confidence I didn’t think it was real. I just now had to all day
for the results.
Later that night the results were posted.
I didn’t make the team that I exactly wanted but the team that I did make I am
the captain. Knowing that they made me the captain makes me know that I stood
out as a leader for them to notice me.
I can relate my story to the book Perfect. In this book Isabel has an
eating disorder. She knows herself that it is bad for you and she wants to get
over her fear of being “fat”. Isabel goes to therapy every week and talks out
why she is doing such harm to her body, her reasoning is stress, due to her father’s
death and her mother’s depression and always taking care of her little sister.
After months of hard work Isabel
does get over her fear of being “fat”. She does come over the fact that is beautiful
in her own way, she doesn’t care what people think of her looks anymore. Like
they say, if you like the way you look it doesn’t matter what other people and
that’s exactly how Isabel feels now about herself.
Even though you might now always get
what you want in the beginning it will come out good in the end. Because I am
not going to quit cheering just because I didn’t make the team I wanted. I am
going to make the best out of everything and have an amazing season.
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