"I dont care, I LOVE IT" (2B)

There's always going to be that one thing in your life that you love to do, that it comes easy and natural to you and how much you enjoy it.  No matter what it is, it just makes you feel good and you know that you are confident with it.  In my case, the thing I love to do is Cheerleading.  I started cheerleading when I was 8 years old.  I cheered throughout middle school and all 4 years of high school and was Captain my senior year.  I have to say that it really is my LIFE.  I have loved it every since I stepped foot out on that field and mat when I was 8 years old.  I am in the flow of it while i'm doing it.

Flow

• being completely involved in the activity for its own sake.  You are living in the moment of the activity, you get tired but barely notice.  People can experience flow in different ways such as in any type of sport, or when they are writing, drawing or painting a picture.

http://psychology.about.com/od/PositivePsychology/a/flow.htm

Cheerleading is MOTIVATION.  You have to actually want to be there and want to be at practices pushing yourself harder and harder to be the best that you can be.  As I grew up and matured and went through all the different levels of cheering, I found that it just came easy to me.  It was something so natural that I had no problem making it to practice or even falling behind on my school work.  I still managed to get all the things that I needed and wanted to get done before or even after cheerleading practice.  When at cheerleading practice you seem to forget everything.  You focus on cheering and thats it.  You focus on your stunts, which my favorite thing to do was stunt.  I was a flyer, the girl that they throw up in the air!  I actually was a flyer throughout all the years of cheering.  My mom would always get scared of watching my fly because it can be very dangerous and nerve-wracking!  But I still loved it.  

There were always times where we would be learning new stunts and I wouldn't get it right away but I pushed myself until I got it.  I loved challenging myself with it because I knew I had the potential of doing it.  Same things as learning motions to the cheer, or the choreography to the dance, or the tumbling sequence.  That's all part of cheering and I loved every single minute of it.  Cheerleading just comes natural to me and it can sometimes have its ups and downs.  Yeah you had those boys in your classes where they would say "cheerleading isn't a sport, you just jump around and throw girls in the air."  Yeah, we know football, basketball, soccer, etc. are hard sports and you have to practice a lot, but cheerleading is just the same way.  It looks easy, but it isn't.  When competition season comes around, all you do is run the routine over and over again until you throw up.  That's just the way it is and how hard you have to work for it to win. You have to really motivate yourself in doing this sport and if you aren't motivated to work hard and try hard at every practice, then it just wont be the sport for you.

Cheerleading is still part of my life but not fully.  I still consider it a part of my life and activity that I do because it's something I enjoy doing.  I help the little girls when I go back home because they look at me as a role model.  I even still stunt sometimes with my friends and go to practices with the cheer team this year and participate in practice.  My sister is a Freshman this year and I love seeing her cheer because it's a minnie me.  All I can say is that Cheerleading really is the one thing in my life that will never leave.  I love it too much and it comes natural to me.  It keeps me smiling and happy.

Being a cheerleader, taught me some things.  It taught me how to motivate yourself if you really want it, it taught me how to shake something off if something went wrong with a stunt or anything else in a routine, it taught me how to believe in myself, and how strong I really am.  It taught me how to deal with certain situations and that if you have confidence in doing something then theres no reason you can't accomplish anything.  You can accomplish anything when you believe and if you REALLY want it.  Being taught all those things makes me think the same way about my school work.  If I really want to get all A's my first semester, then I'm gonna do it.  I have to be confident with it and if I struggle then keep trying harder and harder, keep pushing myself just like I pushed myself with my stunting.  You can push yourself by working harder and reading, writing more to understand the material in the class or the upcoming material on a test or quiz.  You have to motivate yourself into doing the work, even if you don't love doing the work, find a way to make it more interesting.  Any one can achieve good grades, it's always a good thing to challenge yourself, just like I faced challenges with cheerleading.  As long as your confident in yourself and put the time and effort in, just like I did with cheerleading.

Learning all of those traits in cheerleading and relating it to doing it with my school work is great.  It teaches me how to do all those things and makes me feel better about myself everyday.  This can even pertain to having a job in my future.  No matter what job it will be you are still going to have to be confident with yourself and motivate yourself.  (even if you don't like your job)  Cheerleading has taught me many things and even though I'm not a full on cheerleader like I used to be, It still is a HUGE part of my everyday life, and I would like to keep it that way for a while because it really is the one thing that taught me so many things in life.   Not even only with the sport but how I can use the traits to my school work and and with my future jobs!