Our Changing Personalities

Take your mark, go! Most think that competitive swimming is an easy sport. Yet just about as many don't even know that it is a sport. But the truth is, swimming is a sport and it might be one of the most difficult out there.

Swimming is definitely a physical and mentally challenging sport. Swimming takes hours of disciplined practice, on average two to three hours of practice a day five days a week. Most of the time people find that they go home drained of almost all energy. But that is only the tip of the ice berg. The part about swimming that is the most fun must be the meets. Swimming meets are kind of a way to prove yourself; they are kind of a way to see what you can do. When you’re swimming your events at the meets you kind of go into your own world. Everyday matters do not even occur to you any more, only what is at hand. In the background you can hear all of your friends and coaches cheering you on with all of their energy. It gives you amazing self satisfaction.

But really it doesn’t matter what sport you favor in the end. Everybody has their own preference. But the thing that does matter is if you find satisfaction in what you do.

I know that most of you do favor other sports, so just to clarify; I am NOT saying that swimming is the best sport out there. I am just expressing an opinion. I know that all sports are only as good as you believe, not what others say. There are lots of cool sports out there tennis, basketball, skiing, snowboarding, and more. I am simply expressing my view on the one that I chose.

All sports do require things of the participant. It is this that I think gives us all our personality. Not the sports in which we participate necessarily but the things required of us in our day to day lives and how we react to them in given situations. We all react to things in different ways, which in turn gives us our personality. All of our personalities change over the courses of our lives. Though there always is that underlying thing we all have that will last us our entire live. It is kind of fun to look back on you personality in seventh grade and relate it to your current one. Most would be amazed at the changes that have been occurring during the years and us not even realizing them. We all have gone from nervous little seventh graders who were afraid of getting lost in the school, to the most comfortable kids in the school and not one bit nervous. We all know the school like a second home (regrettably) and traverse its halls almost daily. It would almost make us want to go into our teacher’s minds and see what they thought of us in seventh grade and what they think of us now. It almost scares you to think of it.