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Adrian Infante Solis
English 111
Professor Hasted
April 4, 2013
This Might be the Greatest Cause to My Life I think about the greatest moments in my life, there is one that comes to mind that has led me to where I am today and I am going to be thankful for the rest of my life. The day I touched a basketball for the first time might have seemed as a simple meaningless moment then, but looking at the past as of today I realize that it was the key to success in life. I would have never been at this place in this moment, if it wasn’t for basketball. It could have been a worthless thing to do if I didn’t love what I was doing with the ball. But the fact of the matter is that since day one, I fell in love with the sport. It all started when I was eleven years old and my father was trying me out in all the sports I wanted to see which one I liked the most. Everything was looking good to play football. But the reason that things were looking good was because I had not yet played basketball. My dad is a big time football fan and of course was pushing me to become a football player, and at first I really did like it. But I never loved it. I actually hated some aspects of the game, I hated the tight helmets, and the heavy padding, and the heat of the sun during practice because I had to be outside. But the thing that I absolutely hated the most was that I could not score the ball because I was a lineman. My dad noticed that I really didn’t like it so he got me started on basketball; it was obvious that I was going to be a very tall boy. That is when my greatest cause was started. Even though I was not very good at basketball throughout my first 7 years, I never gave up and I forced myself to become a good player by practicing hard and making myself a great player to put myself in a great position with a scholarship in hand, and a future bachelor’s degree in most likely 5 years. That has truly been my cause and effect, me playing basketball had an effect on my life
English 111
Professor Hasted
April 4, 2013
This Might be the Greatest Cause to My Life I think about the greatest moments in my life, there is one that comes to mind that has led me to where I am today and I am going to be thankful for the rest of my life. The day I touched a basketball for the first time might have seemed as a simple meaningless moment then, but looking at the past as of today I realize that it was the key to success in life. I would have never been at this place in this moment, if it wasn’t for basketball. It could have been a worthless thing to do if I didn’t love what I was doing with the ball. But the fact of the matter is that since day one, I fell in love with the sport. It all started when I was eleven years old and my father was trying me out in all the sports I wanted to see which one I liked the most. Everything was looking good to play football. But the reason that things were looking good was because I had not yet played basketball. My dad is a big time football fan and of course was pushing me to become a football player, and at first I really did like it. But I never loved it. I actually hated some aspects of the game, I hated the tight helmets, and the heavy padding, and the heat of the sun during practice because I had to be outside. But the thing that I absolutely hated the most was that I could not score the ball because I was a lineman. My dad noticed that I really didn’t like it so he got me started on basketball; it was obvious that I was going to be a very tall boy. That is when my greatest cause was started. Even though I was not very good at basketball throughout my first 7 years, I never gave up and I forced myself to become a good player by practicing hard and making myself a great player to put myself in a great position with a scholarship in hand, and a future bachelor’s degree in most likely 5 years. That has truly been my cause and effect, me playing basketball had an effect on my life