Fear: Mind and Coach
Fear
My heart was pounding, my body was shaking all I could see is white dots, and the thing that was on my mind was where am I, and how did this happen. After a month of my accident I could remember parts of how that day started and ended. But as time went by I remember how that day started and it was a Tuesday afternoon. It was the middle of the wrestling season and that day we had a match against the Mendota Aztec to see who would stay number one in our league. So everyone was excited, but also serious. When I entered and look around I had seen a lot of determination and confidence. As the day went on and we were on our way to Mendota, the seriousness went away, because we were a bunch of seventh graders in a hot bus. So we went crazy like we were monkeys stuck in a small cage. We also started to throw paper balls at each other and got a little bit loud. At that moment I wasn’t really thinking about the match or who I was going to wrestle, all I was thinking about is today going to be a good day. But one thing I am always going to remember are once we entered Mendota everyone got quite, because it was time to get serious. Once we got there we had to go to the locker room and weigh in to see who we were going to wrestle. The kid that I was going to face went first and thought to me was I got this match in my pocket. I was confident that I was going to win my match. So the match started, I had to wait for my turn to go, but as the match went on I could tell some of my teammates were tired. We were winning 3-2, which means we had three wins and they had two. As I was waiting to get called for I was thinking how I was going to win my match, but I had a strange feeling that something bad was going to happen. But finally it was my turn to go wrestle. I got up and shook my opponent hand and the referee started the match. As we started to wrestle the crowd got louder and louder, I felt like I was in a football game that’s how loud it got. We were going at it, I took
My heart was pounding, my body was shaking all I could see is white dots, and the thing that was on my mind was where am I, and how did this happen. After a month of my accident I could remember parts of how that day started and ended. But as time went by I remember how that day started and it was a Tuesday afternoon. It was the middle of the wrestling season and that day we had a match against the Mendota Aztec to see who would stay number one in our league. So everyone was excited, but also serious. When I entered and look around I had seen a lot of determination and confidence. As the day went on and we were on our way to Mendota, the seriousness went away, because we were a bunch of seventh graders in a hot bus. So we went crazy like we were monkeys stuck in a small cage. We also started to throw paper balls at each other and got a little bit loud. At that moment I wasn’t really thinking about the match or who I was going to wrestle, all I was thinking about is today going to be a good day. But one thing I am always going to remember are once we entered Mendota everyone got quite, because it was time to get serious. Once we got there we had to go to the locker room and weigh in to see who we were going to wrestle. The kid that I was going to face went first and thought to me was I got this match in my pocket. I was confident that I was going to win my match. So the match started, I had to wait for my turn to go, but as the match went on I could tell some of my teammates were tired. We were winning 3-2, which means we had three wins and they had two. As I was waiting to get called for I was thinking how I was going to win my match, but I had a strange feeling that something bad was going to happen. But finally it was my turn to go wrestle. I got up and shook my opponent hand and the referee started the match. As we started to wrestle the crowd got louder and louder, I felt like I was in a football game that’s how loud it got. We were going at it, I took