What activities bring you the most joy, and what physical abilities and skills enable you to enjoy them?
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When I was in junior high, my friend wanted to try out for Tall Flags for our school. I didn’t really know what that was, but I found out that you basically wave a tall flag around in time with the marching band. Ok, that didn’t strike me as really cool, but then, I had no illusions about where I stood on the cool scale. Because I wanted my friend to like me and I wanted to hang out with her, I went to the tryouts as well.
Now, all of my life, I was clearly bad at sports and bad at PE, so trying out for anything that required coordination was something of a stretch… but what do you know? I have a good sense of rhythm, and with a little effort, I could even pass as coordinated. I realize now that I wasn’t bad at physical activities at all… I just needed good instruction and some dedicated practice. This is the lesson I appreciate most.
I made the team, and to this day, I love the feeling of twirling, spinning, throwing and catching those flags.