Polished This I Believe Essay

Listen to advice

I believe that the plain truth is needed before someone can fix something. Once all the layers of sugar coating and lies are gone, you can actually get to the dirty work of fixing whatever problem that was being ignored.

A few years ago I decided that I wanted to play soccer for a U14 team in the league nearby, because I was still young enough to play in that division. So I signed up for a team, but it wasn’t long after that, that I realized that the guys I was playing with were above my caliber, even thought they were younger than me. At first this made me pretty upset because I didn’t know why my team mates were so much better than me, and I felt like I didn’t fit in. At first I looked at my teammates with resentment because of this.

 I’m pretty sure my coach saw this because he came and talked me before our first game. He was worried that I was having problems with the team and wanted to know what was wrong. So I told him that I didn’t fit in because everyone was better than me. Then he told me the honest truth, he told me that yes, I didn’t fit in, but that it wasn’t because the other guys were better than me, it was because I was the first new guy on the team in four years, and that I haven’t found my place yet. So, taking all of his advice into account I started trying to be friends with everyone, and I did eventually find my place on the team and even became a captain at the end of the session.

Thanks to my coach I found out that I was wrong, and afterwards I was able to change how I acted so that I could fix my situation. Sometimes I think we all jump to conclusions and get stuff messed up in our brains. Sometimes these mix ups can cause a lot of damage. I know if I had stayed stuck in my way of thinking, then my whole experience with that new team could have been dramatically different. Because I had a coach who came and talked to me and told me what my problem Really was, I was able to turn a bad experience into a great memory of a session that I really enjoyed.

I think that sometimes everyone needs that one person in their life that can bring them back to Earth and tell them how it really is because sometimes we all see things in the wrong light. It’s those people in our life that help us get past all the little stuff that we see and turn our focus onto the real problem. So now I am coming to understand that sometimes when people criticism us that it’s not always bad, sometimes people are just trying to set our sights on the right problem.

Reflection for This I believe Essay

The This I Believe Essay was very difficult for me. I do not usually go and express my emotions or beliefs out in public and that was what this essay was all about. Most of the time I think that expressing what I think to others is just going to get me in trouble and in this paper that held true. For me I had to do a lot of revising and editing not to fix grammatical mistakes and such, but to fix how I was saying it. This is because I’m a straight to the point, no BS kind of person, and I found it really hard to write this paper without sounding mean or arrogant. This is what took up most of my free time during writing this paper because I had to come way out of my comfort zone and tone down my beliefs a little to make my paper better suited for the assignment.