Ever since I was five years old, I used to always carry around a basketball wherever I went. If it was just a little teddy ball, or a miniature size ball, I was always caught carrying it around the house like it was part of my body. When I turned seven years old, my mother wanted me to start playing recreational basketball. My first year, I became the M.V.P of the team. M.V.P is the most valuable player. A lot of the other guys on the team used to think I was a showboat, and I didn't want to pass them the ball. But it wasn't like that at all. I wanted to win every minute. Every second. The thought of victory ran through my mind constantly, and I figured I was the man to get the victory.

As time went by, and I progressed in the sport, I started to think I was unstoppable, so I thought I would try another sport. So I went out for the pewee football team. They started me out as the full back because I was kind

Being serious is important to some people in a sense they will never get run over or stepped on. I say that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard since someone told me Michael Jackson was a transvest dike. I never really got that one. Ok, I do take things a little too far sometimes, but transvest dike? That's serious. I like to think of my being serious as a way to block out people when they are trying to get me to laugh or giggle at the wrong time. I get side tracked very easy, and being serious is the only thing I have in my defense besides telling someone to go buzz of. But I said serious not rude. When it comes to doing work I am very focused and lazy at the same time, so you could imagine how long it's taking me to write this essay. I am pushing to get this little three-page thing going, and I have cramps in all of my fingers. How serious is that?

of chunky, but quick and fast. I never scored a single touchdown until the last game of the season that never even mattered to me because we were playing the worst team in the league. I furthered my football career on into middle school where I started playing wide receiver. I had grown up a lot and was a lot taller than some of the kids, and with a very slim body.

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