Monday, 3 October 2011
what i was thinking last year when i wanted to quit (at the start of level 6)
Nobody undersdstands it, not my parents not my school friends only gymnasts. Only other gymnasts can understand why we sometimes hate gymnastics but we just can’t quit, why we go to training nearly everyday just to get angry at ourselves and/or injured. i want to quit but I cant, I mean I tell my mum that I want to quit and instead of accepting it she asks why? This makes me doubt my reasons and change my mind. Why can’t they let you quit when you mean it, before you re-think it or change your mind.
Why can’t parents, friends, coaches or teachers just accept that our dream is over, not going to happen. Why do we carry on doing gym? What are we working towards? Why do we put our bodies through all this stress, pain and anger?
The thing is you can’t just quit, you can’t just suddenly stop after doing it for that long, you can’t just let all that work count for nothing.
There’s one thing stopping us, stopping us from quitting… regret.
Regret that we will want to do gym again. Regret that we could have been something. Regret that if we had kept doing gymnastics it could have made us the person we wanted to be.
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