Gymnastics-Personal Narrative

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I had a serious problem. And I didn't think I could solve it. I was trying to achieve a goal, but that goal became terrifying. At first, I didn't take it too seriously. I was like, “I can do that. It should be easy.” I fooled around, chatted with friends, and didn't focus too much. “I still had time,” I told myself. My problem was that I was trying to juggle around many things at once, while trying to live my life. I had set a difficult goal for myself. I was trying to move up to the next level in gymnastics, which meant working on new skills and perfecting the skills I could already do for competition season. Not to mention that I was new and had no idea what I was doing. Right before I moved, I had mastered all of my skills except for two. Switching gyms …show more content…
Balancing homework, gymnastics, my goals, studies, and trying to fit in free time was tiresome. That time was also when I watched friends around me fall and hurt themselves. “This will happen to me too,” I thought. Sometimes they twisted their ankle, broke their arm, fractured their wrist, all sorts of injuries. What was worse was, they were working on the same skills that I was doing. After seeing their injuries, I began to worry. Worrying was my second nature. In my every skill, I would hesitate; sometimes even jump off and not try the skill. “Stop worrying,” I would tell myself. It didn't work. Hesitating before every skill, I caused tension. The balance beam scared me the most. Nevertheless, it was my best event, I kept on injuring myself on it. Sometimes I needed extra help. I decided that I needed to focus more. I tried, but it was hard. Everyone in the class was my friend, and they all talked to me. “Just focus, you can talk later,” I thought. I had ups and downs on my path to success. For example, competition season had just begun. My first competition was coming up. Nervousness and anxiety took over my