What I’ve Learned From Sports

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I feel like I have a weird relationship with sports. I just finished watching a podcast with Venus and Serena Williams and it made me think about the impact sports has had on my life. Additionally I’m three days into a cut now so this topic is timely and relevant. I say I feel like I have a weird relationship with sports because on one hand I get it and on the other hand I totally don’t. Growing up I didn’t really sport. I played basketball at the local parks and I had a toy hoop at home and there was a time when I was really into basketball. Eventually that interest eroded away. It wasn’t cultivated in me.

I am an athlete still to this day because I work out regularly, but in terms of a ball and some sort of skill, or record setting and breaking and what have you, the struggle historically has been real. I guess this matters to me because it may help me understand myself better, or, I could be making a mountain out of a mole hill for the purpose of content. Now that I am thinking about it, maybe I’m just not a sports guy. I’m trying to discover some deep psychological or similar meaning as to why I played sports growing up but don’t necessarily feel all that connected to sports, when the reality is, at the time when I was playing, what I was really doing was trying to get away from home.