There are often a lot of thing that end and go by but recently I witnessed a very meaningful end to a chapter of my own life. That recent end was my middle school basketball career. It may sound like nothing much, but it is very special to me in it’s own way. It makes me sad to think I will never have a middle school 8th grade game again. The ending of my middle school basketball career signifies in a way that we are all growing up. It shows us that it is only going to get harder from here.
The end of this basketball season impacts me so much because it shows me how harder you have to work in sports now. You can’t just show up and expect to play with equal playing time. You have to earn your playing time by working hard every single day in practice. You have to put so much more time and effort into your sports in order to make the sports worth the while. Along with that practice gets ten times harder. Even though this is a sport’s season, it can also reference to your real life. You have to work harder, and put more time and effort in your everyday life, not just sports.
With the end of the middle school team, it now means us 8th graders have begun the season of high school basketball. We now play on the “C” team and practice everyday with them. Although it means a new chapter in our life, it also means that us 8th grades will rarely ever play with just us six anymore. We will always be intermixed with upperclassmen and underclassmen. Just the thought of that makes me sad and want to cry. We now have to grow up and work for our successful basketball career.
The ending of my middle school basketball season is a way of being slapped in the face; you have to grow up now; you have to work hard in order earn things; you have accept unfairness. Middle school is coming to an end and high school is approaching. Things end, but new things start. New chapters in life come and go. Life isn’t a piece of cake anymore as it gets ten times harder.
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