There is always a time when people are at the best, and those times come periodically throughout your life. Looking back to when I feel that I was at my best was not to long ago. It happened in my senior season of wrestling when I achieved my first winning record. Wrestling to me could be comparable to starting your freshman year of college as I will explainin the following paragraphs.
Wrestling is an individual sport that takes a lot of effort and determination to be put into the sport. In other terms, what you put into to it is what you will get out of it. I think that the mentality got to me in my senior season that this would be my last. That I'd better do the best I could, and do everything to make myself better. I went from having 6 total wins in my first three years to having 28 in my senior year; wrestling in a mental sport, think positive things, positive things will happen.
College is very similar, you put the work and dedication into learning, you will go far in life. College is your individual sport where you learn a skill to use for the rest of your life. The hours of studying, doning homework and projects are relateable to the hours of sweat and hard work you put into on the mat. Your grades and possible careers are on the line as a season record.
I may have not had the season turn out the way I was hoping it would but the results of quadroupling my wins in one season is a stunning achievement. The lesson that can be learned from this situation is, that you are the one controling your life. You alone can change it, and mold it to be the best possible outcome.
I agree that wrestling is a mental sport. I wrestled 3 years of high school and then got injured, so i know what its like to give your all. Congratulations on the winning season, and if you put your mind to college like you did toward wrestling, i think you will do well.
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