I BELIEVE FINAL DRAFF

“KEEP PUSHING NO MATTER HOW HARD IT GETS”

BY: Ryan Souza

PERIOD 2

ENGLISH

 

    Keep pushing no matter how hard it gets. In my life, I will need to overcome many obstacles and fears placed in front of me. From there, that could lead me to being successful or lead to failure. The only way for me to become successful, is to overcome the defeats and keep striving for success. When everything settles and the pain and suffering has finished, I will be able to become successful in life. Just "Keep pushing no matter how hard it and gets".

   After 16 years a lot has changed about me and who I am today, the days where I was the cutest baby every till today a big boy. As elementary days came along I was the one to teased at every day because for one I was the biggest in my class, two I wasn't the smartest, and three well there’s not really a three. After 6 years of elementary here came middle school therefore I knew that I wouldn't be the biggest boy there and one of the smarter ones. So middle school was pretty freighting with a lot of different people there and bigger boys than me, it was just a whole different chapter of my life that I had to push through and get over it. I was thinking "ahh these years in middle school is going to be a breeze" then grades came out and it wasn't looking good almost not even passing, so from there I started realizing that I really need to buckle down and get my act together. I tried and tried to go in for help and get help from my teachers by going for help during lunch, recess, and after school hours but it all seemed that none of that helped. Then I then found out a way to get my grades up was to stop hanging out with my friends and go home and do my homework instead, then that helped me a lot and brought my grades up so that I can pass middle school. Then came high school just by saying those words made me scared “HIGH SCHOOL!”, so as I made my way through the first day of high school I was shocked, but as the year passed everything turned out fine.

     When I was young I was active into many sports I played baseball, basketball, volleyball, football, and judo. Those sports was a big part of my life and sometime I would have to go back to back practices because judo was always at night and that’s where, “keep pushing no matter how hard it gets” fits in because even though I would be tired and lazy I would always have to keep pushing myself to practice. In my life playing sports especially baseball was a big factor in my life because it was passed down from my great grandpa playing baseball, till my grandpa playing/ coaching baseball, my dad playing baseball, and now me. But there was only one problem from me being to my best ability was because I was a big boy and it made everything harder for me like to run, to bend down, to swing the bat, and even just to keep the paste of running with my team. But at the end every practice every game I had to “keep pushing no matter how hard it gets”.

    Every morning at 7:00 I will wake up and take a jog, I was still a big boy nothing loose and only some muscle gained. It was my first year of high school I went in the school wearing a double x shirt and still big. But then came along baseball a program where you had to train hard this is where everything counted and the chance for me to get skinnier and more buff. So this was my chance I started going gym lifting and lifting then run a mile because for me to make this jv team I needed to make a mile and keep it under 8 minutes. As the tryouts came along I lost 15lbs and I made the baseball team. Now judo was a different story I was going into judo as a brand new beginner and I lost so much technique because I never kept up with it.  I went back to back practices, going to two judo clubs, and then going home and lifting. Then that’s what changed me once I kept that paste going I just had the drive I was losing weight like a little kid eating candy. By then end of the season I dropped to wearing a xl shirt and felt good. I gained a lot more muscles and then season starts I ended my regular season with 10-2, I placed 7^th in oias and went to states and placed 7^th no so bad for my first year but all I had to do to get this far was to “keep pushing no matter how had it gets.

      In conclusion, “keep pushing no matter how hard it gets” would be the best saying that describes me and how I live my life. In the beginning I was the biggest boy and no one to talk to and I didn’t do nothing about it but just keep eating food and get bigger. Then I ended up losing 25lbs this year in judo and baseball and got more muscular and still having that dive to lose more and more weight, and lift heavier. Therefore I though no matter how hard it is for me to lose this weight and get muscle, I will keep on pushing and strive for my goals because I never want to give up on something that I haven’t finish and no matter what obstacles I will have to take no matter what work outs I will have to do, I WILL “KEEP PUSHING NO MATTER HOW HARD IT GETS”!