After quitting dance, I had begun playing soccer at six years old. I was oblivious to how much of a role it would play in my life and who I was as a person.
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Fast Forward 9 years
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I'm kind of surprised I have never been injured from soccer after playing for 9 years.
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A couple weeks later...
OUCH MY KNEE
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Unfortunately, she is going to have to be out of soccer for 8-10 weeks as she has dislocated her knee.
What am I going to do with myself?
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Soccer was the one thing I always looked forward, and now I can't play for 2 1/2 months. I feel like I am losing part of who I am.
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What if I am not going to be as good as I used to be? What if this is going to affect my chances at playing soccer in college?
The next week at practice....
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Later that night while I was scrolling through TikTok, I came across a girl who had torn ACL, and she had realized during her recovery that everything happens for a reason. By tearing her ACL it had allowed her to see that soccer was not what defined her but rather simply just a sport she played.
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Going to school the next day it became clear that the girl on TikTok was right. All of my friends and family liked me for who I was as a person, they did not care whether or not I played soccer.
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