Passion (E.C. Blog)

Throughout my life I have always been passionate about sports. Ever since I can remember I have been active in at least one sport at. The first team I was actually on was a soccer team for a Sioux Falls league when I was around the age of five. I continued to play soccer every year for the Sioux Falls league until the eighth grade when I had to move from Hartford up to Langford. I had to stop playing because there isn’t a team up here for me to join that won’t interfere with my school related sports. I loved to run up and down the soccer field scoring goals and working with my team mates to get better. A couple of years we were really good and I still have my trophy and metals from when I played.

Not long after I started soccer I was finally old enough to start basketball and baseball. Part of the reason I’m so passionate about sports is because while growing up I got to play them with my brothers. My mom and dad also played a huge role in my sports as a kid. My dad coached my older brother and I for a couple of years when we played baseball as kids, and my mom coached us in basketball for multiple years.

Another sport that I got into early was football. I started playing when I was in the third grade for a Sioux Falls league with kids from my school. I did that until I was able to play for our schools middle school team in Hartford, and now I just finished my senior year of playing the game. I’m sad that it’s over, but I couldn’t have asked for a better way to end it.

Throughout my years I have also done track and swimming. I’ll just tell you now that swimming makes track seem easy. I was only out for swimming for one year. I enjoyed getting to try it and having experienced what it’s like but it is not my sport.

I started track in eighth grade, after I moved to Langford, having to do whatever events the coach wanted me to do just to fill in events. Throughout my years of track I personally find myself liking track practice better than track meets. I don’t know why that is but it just seems like I do better and run faster at practice than when I’m at a meet actually racing.

The main reasons I am passionate about sports are all the memories and the fun times you have along the way meeting new people and getting to play with those you know. I also really enjoy being active and being able to be a part of a team.

 

                      

Is it possible to be too nice? (E.C. Blog)

Is it possible to be too nice? That is something that I wonder every time someone tells me that I am too nice. I believe that everyone needs to be nice and care for one another, but I do think that there is a point to where someone could be too nice. But I also think that most people are so worried about themselves these days that they forget to take time and see what’s going on around them.

I personally love helping others and being able to make someone’s day even just a little bit better. I was raised being taught that I should always help others and to think of others first and myself last. I was also started in the cub scouts at a young age. After cub scouts I became a webelos, and then became a boy scout. I recently received my Eagle Scout award which is the highest rank a person can get in the scouts. And one thing I had to learn and follow, something I have to live by, is the scout oath which is, “On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.” The scout slogan also read “do a good turn daily.”

After reading an article on being too nice it was made clear to me that to other people being too nice is unattractive and can lead to different problems with others in today’s world. In another article it talks about how being too nice can make you look weak to others, how you can forget to be nice to yourself, how you can attract the wrong kind of people, how some people with distrust you, and how you could warp your expectations.

I think in today’s world people are so worried about what others think of them and everyone wants to fit in to the “cool groups.”  Even if that means doing something they wouldn’t do, or in this case not doing something that they would do. Like helping someone in the hallways at school or helping someone with a problem they have.

We as people need to care for and be nice to one another. Because taking time to listen to some one and to listen to what they have to say is a way for everyone to get along with one another and a way to be able to understand the other person.

I believe that there is a line that shouldn’t be crossed when it comes to being nice, the line where someone trying to be nice becomes kind of creepy. I think it’s just that some people today just don’t care about others anymore and are too self-centered to take time out of their day to help someone else.  Matthew 5:16 “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”