Patiently Waiting To Be Healed

In the middle of February towards the end of the Indoor softball season, I was playing an indoor game bottom of the inning. The ball was hit towards space in between 2nd base and 1st base. I was on 1st base and went for the ball and positioned my feet wrong; Immediately after the play was made, I knew something was wrong due to the pain I felt in my left knee. It was weeks later that I found out I partially tore my ACL and MCL. It was right near the time that the regular season was about to start. The very first day of the regular season I told my high school coaches that I was limited to what I could do.

Seeing those other girls go out and practicing with everything they have made me want to join. It also made me want to go against the doctor’s recommendation and just play the sport I love; I felt useless and doubted myself a lot that I wasn’t going to be as good as I was before the injury. That I would let the whole team down because I wasn’t the young promising player they hoped for. So I decided that I was going to wait it out to be cleared. Also, helping out my teammates when they needed it to the team as a whole. Which help me in the long run because I wasn’t as anxious to start playing again.

So I waited it out helping them as much as I can, but also hoping to be cleared so I could join. When I finally got cleared, it was the best day of my life, even though I couldn’t go all out, but I could start the motions again. It made me realize that watching the team practice made me better and that analyzing them and helping them out while waiting patiently made me realize that helping them helped my game. In the end, I was stronger, felt better about not disappointing the team due to my skill level.

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