opinion

A while back ago my good friend from high school, who I had grown up with and loved like a brother, was about to quit all sports for no reason. He came to me one day and asked me what he should do, I wasn't really shocked that he had came to me because of how close we were. Knowing how good of a football and basketball player he really was, and how big of a difference he made for our team the obvious answer was to tell him just to stay with it, it is your last year doing it and you will regret it big time. But since we were so close I knew he would expect a better answer then that, so I thought about it real hard and though about how I could keep him out because truth be told without him out there I wasn't really sure if I would want to be there either. So I talked about how I made the horrible mistake of my life when I didn't go out for basketball my junior year and how badly I regreted doing that. I also talked to him about how much the team wants him there, and that the coaches would be devistated and talk to him, push him to come back out just like they did to me. I related a lot back to when I quit and told him how awful it was having the coaches always pursuing me and pushing me to go back out. How I missed not being with the team and how badly I felt watching that same team have a spectacular year without me involved. Finally after a week of talking to him about it he finally made the right decision to come back out. Go figure he would still have the drive to be all that he could be and ended up a few votes short of all-state team for football. It's amazing what one can do when pushed to their limit, it is like the army says be all that you can be, and last year he was!