It was 30 minutes before my glorious battle for me to learn from and show off my basketball skills to the best of the best. My heart was bumping like it was going to explode. My eleven-year-old heart could not contain my burst of excitement. This excitement also made me forget about the pressure of losing or winning. I was happy and my hands were itchy just because I could play among the best. With all my anticipation, I still tried to maintain my indifferent look before the crowd, or put up a game face in front of everyone.
Basketball is my favorite sport in my life. In fact, I did not recognize other sports as sports except basketball. Every time I play basketball I can always remember the moment when I was watching the Japanese anime Slam Dunk with my brother and trying to imitate every move that every character did on the television. And believe it or not, parts of my character were shaped by this old cartoon. I was influenced by a character in anime who was not talkative and would care less but he was very good in basketball. He would never care about how other people look at him so long as he knew what he was doing. Like this anime character, I would not pay attention to any detail other than the thing that I am doing, and I believe that people can master anything if they can care less of other people’s criticism and opinion by focusing on their own hearts.
I also love my Super Saiyan character of not afraid of losing or winning but exciting about the progress of battle or competition. In a cartoon show, Super Saiyan is the best warrior in the universe. They never feel death in battles but excitement because they can fight with the best. It is worthy for him to under the hands of best warrior. I was a Super Saiyan, I will care less of the result of games or competition but enjoy the process. Even though I play with people who are better than me, I always feel honored and enjoy learning from them.
Why do I do what I do? Because people can accomplish anything by ignoring things that distract them or influence their beliefs, and the joy of competing is learning not winning or losing.
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