I love to try new things and I love to do just about anything, but something I absolutely do not love is sports. Unfortunately, in the rest of the world sports are some of the most common hobbies. At school, among friends, and worst of all at church, sports are often used as a way to get to know people or hang out. I feel obligated to go, but I don't enjoy sports and I'm embarrassed at my lack of skill. Maybe one day I'll be an expert at absolutely everything else and I'll finally have to add some sports to my hobby list, but until then, I'm steering clear of them as much as possible!
However, after actually going to a church activity tonight and playing kickball, I've decided to change this post to something more along these lines:
In my whole life, I've tried to avoid sports unless forced to play for PE. I can count on one hand the number of baskets, goals, and touchdowns (combined) I've made in my life. In fact I'm pretty sure I could count on my fingers and toes the total number of times I've played any sport. There's just no appeal to me in getting sweaty and tired and injured. Besides that, when I actually do play it's pretty embarrassing. But tonight I played kickball (of course it's not a very intense sport, but there's a ball and rules and running, good enough for me) and I actually had a lot of fun. Now I wasn't good, not at all, but I had fun and that was more than I expected. I have always attended football games just to hang out with friends, and I do love screaming and cheering and painting my face, but for me watching sports is almost as unappealing as playing them. Actually though, when I was the team manager (pretty much the team mom, but for my peers) of the tennis team and learned all of the rules, it actually became very interesting. Maybe I shouldn't completely ban sports from my hobby list after all.
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