22 Jun, 2017
How I Learned to Look Forward to Failing
In fifth grade, I was told I had no athletic ability by people I respected. Zero. None. After all, I couldn’t do a graceful somersault, couldn’t catch a baseball, never won a running race and let’s just say I was never chosen in the first round as a tennis doubles partner.
And I believed it. I never tried out for a sports team, never joined friends for a pick-up basketball game, hid when it was time to play team sports at camp and never joined a softball league just for fun. It was okay, I was