I don't have it that bad
My sophomore year of High School I played basketball. One night we were playing against Orland and the game was almost over. We were only a couple points behind. I was trying my best to play the best game I ever played. When I went to go get the ball, I tripped over a teammate and I fell. A sharp pain shot through my knee. That's when everything changed for me. Since that day, I have had two surgeries on my right knee. I had my last one in July so it was pretty recent. Since that incident I look at everything differently. There are so many things that I cannot do right now and it has been this way for about one year and a half. I can't go outside with my friends and play a simple game of basketball or just about any sport.
Image from an MRI examination of the knee with a d...
English: Walking outdoors with a walking stick dur...
A tophus inside a knee joint being removed by arth...I have to be careful in places that are slippery because if I slip, there's a chance that I might re injure my knee. When I would go to school I use to be careless about how I walked. I always had people bumping into me and almost making me fall and vice versa. Now I am constantly aware of my surroundings. I make sure that no one is going to trip over my leg and hurt me.
When I'm watching television and I see people playing sports I think to myself, I'm never going to be able to play a sport with out having any problems. I start saying " why did this have to happen to me?" I get so angry that I breakdown and cry. I also ask myself the "What if's?" What if I never would have gone for the ball that night? How...
Poor kid!
But he needs to do more than canned spell check. Several spelling and grammar errors. It would be good to see more of how his recent realization of people who have more difficult challenges has changed his outlook, as a way to further develop the little essay.
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