Built Different

A time when I felt different was in 6th grade when I tried out for the basketball team In my class I was one of the tallest kids while also being one of the heaviest kids I was 5 ft 8 and 170 lbs therefore I felt very different from everybody else who is either shorter than me and weighed less or taller than me and weighed less. During the tryout I would get tired faster than the other kids but the coach would also try to push me harder than some of the other kids because of my size which was very hard for me due to the fact that I was so out of breath.

When the trio ended the coach pulled me aside after he had announced who made the team to tell me that I had made the team with flying colors but I did not believe him as I was not one of the stronger kids on the team he told me that even though I didn’t have as much stamina as the other kids my size was perfect for the role that he needed to fill being taller and bigger helped me while playing in the paint to stop other kids from shooting layups into the basket.

Throughout the season there were a lot of things that happened my teammates would be making fun of me because I could not keep up with them during practice or the game kids on the other team would also make fun of me for not being able to keep up or play as long as they could I felt like. Some of the kids would go around and while I was playing my position they would run circles around me trying to get me to have to move around on purpose just so that way I would be out of breath faster and ask my coach to take me out so they could make fun of me some more.they would make comments like oh time for the fat kid to leave and beg his coach for a water brake.

I was a outcast because of my size, and did not understand why I made the team and why my coach would put me through this but in the end I realized he was just trying to push me to be the best version of myself that I could be without letting anything stop me and I’m so glad that he did it to this day. This also made me realize that when you look around you can’t judge people just based on how they are because they could be going through a lot more than you could ever know a lot of people don’t like to tell you what is going on because they feel as though they’ll be bullied which in this case was true but luckily I had my family coaches and Friends to help me through it but not everybody has that therefore you want to treat others how you want to be treated at all times.

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