This article is about how James Hynes recovers from not making a football team then training with his uncle to play basketball. He built up an enormous amount of confidence to try out and ended up not making the basketball team. He was the only freshman that was cut, and you would think his love for sports ended but it didn’t. He tried for the track team, and his goal was to beat five minutes. He didn’t the first time but kept training. He beat his five minute goal and placed sixth. Next season he tried out for football and made the team but didn’t make the offensive line. The way he viewed his failure was admirable, but it wasn’t easy.
After reading this article I think that you, James Hynes, have captured all of these emotions so well and view failure in such an amazing way. I never realized that doing something well and making a team could make you the best you could be. Failing itself was not what made you the best either, but it was a gateway to success. The way you recovered from failure was your greatest success, and that’s what is the hardest thing for some kids. People don’t want to be embarrassed and fall flat on their faces again. That’s what happened to you and recovering from it was brave. You described going into the car with your parents, and how keeping your emotions from spilling out of your eyes is such a hard thing to do, for me it’s a feat. Not making the football team must have torn the life out of you, the way you rip a page out of a book, except after that you strived to make the basketball team. For some people confidence is one of the things in life that is hard to acquire . You acquired it so quickly but then had people break your heart again. I just want to reiterate that recovering from something that could have ruined your experience for sports is difficult and the way you described gaining confidence sounded like you did it with ease. Was that really what happened? Would that be the same for everyone? This article was moving and eye opening. Thank you for giving me some time to read something that truly made my day.