What Does Growing Up Mean To Me Essay

"Having things organized is for small mined people. Genius controls chaos." -Jens Voigt (2010 Tour de France)

I have just recently found this quote by Jens however, I think it really can describe my life depending on how you look at it. Growing up I was a normal kid with a loving family and lots of friends. I always played sports and to this day I am still really competitive in everything I do. as life went on my life began to open up and become more chaotic. In middle school I found out my parents were getting divorced and at first it affected me but I began to be able to control this hectic life I had grown into. Then my aunt died and I was destroyed at first, not knowing what to do next. However, yet again I began to control the chaos. Life went on as I started to become a genius on myself. I learned about how I would react to different situation. I was able to control different aspects of my felling I was not able to
When I was younger I played the whole rigmarole of sports. Whether is was soccer, lacrosse, basketball, football, or baseball i had fun with all of them. Yet as I got older and began to figure more out about myself i started to trend away from them. When my dad was in his twenties and thirties he competed in lots of triathlons and followed cycling religiously. Somehow my mom decided to start doing triathlons after being a runner for years. So I got a road bike and immediately fell in love. I started doing triathlons but now I have dropped the swim and the run to focus on the bike. Being on the bike gives me that chance to suffer a and enjoy the pain. in the past i have grown as a person when faced with a challenge and pain in life, either physical or mental. I gained the ability to to control chaos from suffering. I believe every second i spend on the bike advances me as a person. I have hours alone to think about myself as a person and I grow every second on the bike. Without the bike I wouldn't be halfway to wear i am