Dedication/commitment

As you may of read in my 20 Random Facts About Me post on number 18 I said, “I don’t want to get married because I hate the thought of commitment”. It’s very hard for me to always be dedicated and give it my all to things(certain subjects in school) I don’t care to much about. The main thing I try my hardest at is swimming. Although I do have to admit this is what goes through my head when I wake up at 5:30 am in the beginning of summer to attend a swim meet; “I hate swimming and I should’ve picked any other sport to compete in and I never want to swim again!”. I obviously didn’t mean that but I’ve pushed through a lot of really tough practices and sprained muscles(a lot to many to quit the sport because of a few stupid mind games I tend to play). My whole life I’ve played so many sports and bounced back and fourth from sport to sport. I finally settled on swimming a about a year ago even though I’ve been swimming since I was three and could fluently swim every stroke by the time I was five.
I takes a lot for me to attend every single hour and a half long practice five times a week with the crazy amount of homework I seem to receive, but somehow I seem to mange. I’ve progressed so much in my last year of competitive swimming and my coach currently is actually the high school swim teams coach, which makes me even more anxious to try out and I’m praying already that I make the team. I hope what I’ve been through will help me in the future to peruse my dream of being a successful business/company designer. Not everything is easy in life, but it’s very important to give it 100 percent always. This is something that I may not be great at, but I’ll always try harder and harder to achieve my goal of giving it all(24/7).

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Swimming

Through the waters
Towards my only goal
Against the powerful waves
Around and around the pool
Next to my only competitors
Within me I’m aching badly
I stride toward the finish line

Swimming

In the summer I swim on an average of six or seven days a week. In the school year I swim only four to five days a week. I love to compete in swimming because I feel like I do better when I’m competing. I started swimming when I was two years old and have loved it ever since. I knew swimming was my favorite(and the sport I’m best at) a couple of years ago. When I was 6-10 I played almost every sport available to a kid. For a while my favorite sport was soccer. Then when i started swimming competitively, the only thing I wanted o do was swim. Where as for soccer, my dad has to drag me out into the heat to unwillingly to practice. When I go to the pool for a party or with friends, I’d be of to the side practicing butterfly or doing flip-turns over and over. I look forward to swimming all of the time. My team is like my family and they push me to get better each and every practice. Swimming is always hard but that never stops me.