True Transformation: The Recycle

                     When I look back at my life and where I came from to become who I am today. I think about how I have changed physically and mentally. By the grace of GOD I overcame multiple injuries and endured stressful criticism, which I believed made me stronger. My dream as a young kid was to play in the NFL and still is a goal for my future.
                     During my little league days, I was a chubby little fat kid that seemed to not have any athleticism in me. Other kids always called me names and joked about my size. Also let I inform you that I was short with that weight. People did not believe that I could make in it any sport and thought I would just quit. But there was always one person I could count on and that was my mother. She pushed me through school work and practices, never settling for less. My mom always said " Use the negative energy to create positive energy", and that's exactly what I did. Working hard and pushing myself in the different off seasons helped slim my body and turned that fat into muscle. By 7th grade in middle school I was athletic enough to play running back and able to prove the people who doubted me most wrong.
                    Also through that period of time I was criticized, I received multiple injuries that sidelined me from playing. The doctor told me I was injury prone because of my lack of calcium, with me being lactose intolerant and all. Ultimately eating ice cream saved me physically because of the calcium in it. The doctors, still to this day, do not understand how I can be lactose intolerant and able to eat ice cream which contains milk. With this weakening my main crutch, it helped me mentally take on physical challenges in the sport of football.

Picture taken by my mom

                    Now to this day I am a JSU freshman football player and 1 step closer to my ultimate goal which is to play in the NFL. It has stuck with me all my life and I never looked back from it since day one. When I look back at when I played little league, middle school, and high school ball I can see the different transformations in myself. I have became stronger, wiser, more athletic, and most of all blessed. I can not think GOD enough for what he has did for my life and others. My critics helped motivate me to become a better man and player. If you learned anything from this post I hope you learned to fight what you believe in and to never let someone tell you you can't