I slowly walk over to the group of big 05’s as I know I will not get put in, on a Thursday night at the saint marks gym. Obviously I started out on the bench and now that I’m watching I realize that the kids on my team are really good. Even though I wanted to go in I was still nervous because I didn’t want to mess on their tram or else i would sit for longer. Eventually after a while one of the kids asked me if I wanted a sub, which showed very good empathy from him an of course I said “yes.” When I got on I played on the right wing and they quickly played me the ball off of a inbound. When I got the ball I got by the first player and passed it across the net to the best player who scored and it was a tie game. Then the defender chipped it over the other teams striker to me and quickly beat my man and megged their defender to win the game.

I learned a lot from this experience because I know how it feels to be excluded. The next time something like this happens I am going to do what the kid that subbed off did to put me into the game. Also when you exclude someone you don’t know if your excluding someone from something sometimes they can make the experience better. 

Being excluded is the worst feeling and can impact someone more than you think it can.