I started playing tennis during my sophomore year and I have loved it ever since, I have gain friends and teachers that have showed me a lot. Many of my closest friend i have met playing tennis. Every match I play teaches me how I can grow as a player and every lose I take is a Remainer that I can get better and every win I get shows me how far I have come. Even though my high school career for tennis is now over I will continue to play tennis every day outside of school. I have learned what it means to be a team, what it means to take accountability and that not everyone is fair. Sometimes you have to take the hard road to get better and that's what I did I went from barely winning my sophomore year to winning some of my matches and making varsity. Though I am not the greatest player I have all the heart and I love the sport. I have learn how others are kind and strangers can be very nice and some very good people. though we had the worst team and lost almost all the time we still showed up to practice and played with a smile . I smiled because I knew that one day I would have to stop playing for school and I could only play for my self, Tennis is a amazing sport and ive seen kids that has so much skill but no heart and when they play it is sad. I have learned how to lift other and spread kindness through tennis, every ball that I hit could lead to another friendship on the other side of the net. Every service I take tells me that I am no longer the kid who knew nothing about tennis but a man that can grow and be kind even when losing. Tennis has tough me to never give up even in life when I am down I can always come back, all I have to say to myself is "it is only the first set" which my coach would say to me when I was down the first set and the second set I would always come back harder and give more and try my hardest because the first failure does not mean you have lost it just means you learn and adapt to it and do the in the second set and try to will and if you have the will to try that's all you can do and that why I loved tennis I can take so many different lesions from it that I can applied to my day to day life.

I tried to be a better person in school and in life but I kept failing at this no matter how hard I tried. I either repeated what I saw around me or was just ignorant of my self and others. My mom kept holding me back by surrounding me with drugs and people who I should of never been around. This was one reason I kept failing at being a better person, I couldn't forgive my mom for what she put me through with my step dad and the drugs, cheating, and straight lying. she left with with my step dad at 12 years old. My sister followed my mom's foot steps and chased men and started to drink and smoke, This made it even harder to forgive her. Even though I did not struggle for money because of my step dad I was never happy. My life was empty I did not know what i wanted I was a Failure and I failed at everything I tried. When I turned 14 I moved to another town with my brother. This helped me be better in school and life. I am now a better person who will never think about touching drugs or anything of the sort. I have gain the strength i needed to forgive my mom and one day I might be able to forgive my self for staying and not moving sooner or just not trying hard enough. have failed again and again in life, I am now trying to succeed in everything I do now no matter how small. I handle my failure by repeating them until I had enough of failing so I chose to look at things a different way from a different perspective. I had to learn from my failure and my mom's failures so that I could grow and be better, so I don't fall into the same life she had. I want to be the first in my family to graduate college and when that happens I will know I have succeed in overcoming all of my failures and when I become a mechanical engineer I will be the happiest man alive because I will know that failures do not hold us back they make us grow and with out failures no one will grow and learn, there will be a time will I am not held back by anyone and my failures will be my own and I will learn and grow to be better because of them. Failure do not define us our accomplishments and what we chose to do with our life do.