Growing Pains

Every great professional sports team has had a low point. Not one team in professional sports history has won every season in a row, which is not likely to happen… ever. Teams go through the growing years, the growing pains and all of the ridicule that comes along with it, but soon enough it will be the day that the team reaches it’s ultimate goal. The Stanley Cup. The World Series. The Super bowl. The NBA Championship. The World Cup. A Gold Medal. The Masters. The British Open. Whatever it may be, all those days, weeks, months, maybe even years of growing pains and ups and downs will be completely worth it.

I’m writing this more from a student life standpoint but trying to relate it back to sports because that’s what I always find myself doing somehow. High school is an experience that we all go through. We all go through heartbreak, loss of friendship, humiliation and maybe your hopes and dreams crashing down around you. What I’ve come to realize lately is that we can’t dwell on the fact that bad things are happening to us. We have to grow from where we are. If bad things never happened to us then we would never be able to grow and learn from experience.

My grade 12 year has been a lot less of what I have expected it to be so far, I’ve lost friends and I’ve been heartbroken. But that’s apart of it all.

If the Toronto Blue Jays didn’t go through years of humiliation and pressure from fans, do you think they would have won the World Series back to back in 1992, and in 1993? No. They went through their own growing pains.

The point I’m trying to get across while writing this is that if you are feeling low just remember that this is all apart of life. Every aspect of the world goes through a cycle of sadness and disappointment, but it’s only temporary.

You will get to your World Series one day, I promise.