My family is full of athletes. My dad played college soccer and my mom played college basketball. We’ve all followed in their footsteps. My older brothers played sports, I play sports, and my two younger sisters play sports. So to take each one to their practice, it’s always a hassle.
One time my sisters had volleyball practice and then I had football practice after them. Problem was we lived on the other side of town, so I had to go to my sister’s practice and wait there 2 hours until it finished, then go to my practice.
At first I was raging with anger and gave my parents attitude. They kind of just let it go but I continued to give them attitude, as a result they got mad and grounded me. I didn’t understand why I got grounded. I told them “It’s not like I should be happy doing something I don’t want to do.” I remained angry for a while so they didn’t try to do no explaining to me at the time.
Towards the end of my sister’s practice I had calmed down and my mom came up to talk to me. She did some explaining to me but I still didn’t understand why I had to be happy in doing something I didn’t want to do. She said “The world doesn’t revolve around [me] and that sometimes I’m going to have to do things [I] don’t want to.” She taught me that even though things aren’t always going to be done my way, to do things with a positive attitude nonetheless. I couldn’t just cry and complain about how things turned out.
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