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Love or Education?
I have to choose between two sports, a sport that I love and spend all my time thinking about and a sport that I for the most part dislike, but is really good for my college application. I am better at the second sport, but it’s just not fun for me!! Which should I choose and why???
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How many years is your college life going to eat up out of your entire lifetime? That might be best way to make a decision. If it's only for four years or so, perhaps you can find it in yourself to put up with a sport you do not love but are good at. Once you graduate, you can go back to enjoying the sport you are most intrigued by. You could go watch games or maybe even get some training in how to play and join local playing leagues. There is no law barring you from that. So if a sport is the only thing barring you right now, you want to stop thinking of yourself for a moment and think of the impact of your feelings will have upon a team you play on in college. When a persons heart is not into something, they tend to lack a zeal and drive to excel, and in your case that would apply in the game. Unwittingly, due to your dislike of the sport, you could become the teams weak link and cause them to lose often, or all the time. This is something to think about. Could you put aside your dislike of the sport and really apply your self and play with an energy and drive that those who love the sport have, the desire to help your team win, the want to learn to love and support it? I can't say if its more your mind, ideas, thoughts and such that have you disliking the sport. If this is so, then perhaps in actually playing it you will find you are beginning to like it.
How crucial is the playing of a sport for college? Do you have to? If you don't and are thinking that you only want to list on an application that you have playing a certain sport, I can't say if that will matter to the college. It might be better to talk to Alumni of that college and ask them your questions. You said you have to choose so I assume you must do one sport and somehow it will be tied to a scholarship or your final degree. Does the school really offer both sports in question? If they do, how soon do you need to choose? Is there time to take a training course in the sport before college to see if you can get better with training? If so, then your choice will be to apply for the sport you love and have interest in. If there is no time to test yourself now ahead of time to see how quickly you pick up skills, then you know you'd be in an awkward spot to get accepted and then give up on the sport you liked and applied with, and may also be letting them down, the team that is. If you are so willing to take that chance, and so dead against the second sport, then do what you believe will make you happy. If being happy and not making sacrifices for the years you are in college is more important to you, then be happy and choose what you think will make you happy. If you decide you can endure anything for the duration of college, then choose the one you're better at and once graduated, follow your passions for fun.
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