Personal Narrative: Confined In The Mind

Confined in the Mind Back in the day when I was about 8 playing baseball I felt mentally captive. I felt that I could not succeed like the other players were and I felt weak. Just like all the patients in the ward battling against Nurse Ratched they felt hopeless just like I did. I was so unmotivated to go to practice because I felt like I wasn’t improving. Maybe if I actually used my head I could of thought that what the major league players do is what I have to do to become just like them. That was my mentality when I was young and it still is to this day. I learned that if I wanted to succeed I have to put in extra work. I needed to practice, have control, and game situation. Practice is the most important thing to getting better because
If you doubt yourself you will do what your mind says. The mind is a powerful thing and you cannot let it control your body. I let it overcome me because I never thought I got better but I realized that by believing in myself and noticed my improvement I found out that I was one of the best in my league. Having arrogance can be bad because you seem too cocky in yourself, however, it could be good because you know what you’re capable of and you know it’s your best. Mentality can also throw the enemy off as well because they “feed off our weakness” which in turn brings the whole team down. Without mind control you can go from having the best game of your life to sitting on the bench and not playing because you started to suck. Anything that can change your mood affects yourself in real life because what goes on up there happens in real
Game situation helps us know whether our extra practice has payed off. During the game I think about nothing but what I can control. If somebody makes a bad play I can’t control that, all I can control is myself. Practice and controlling your thoughts leads me to doing my best in game and being satisfied with what I did. Games are where you show yourself and everybody watching that you are the best. You show them that hard work pays off and it can take you many places that you want to go. Practicing helps with game situation because you find out what your strengths and weaknesses and things you need to work on. Playing in a game can also help you in colleges because scouts can watch your game and you can get your career set when you’re only in high school which is a great feeling. Also having control over your thoughts helps you because you need to keep calm and stay focused during the whole game. You put everything you have gathered into your game and you prove to yourself that you can be the best and you will be the