Post 11

I’ve gone through so many ideas on what to write about for my final creative nonfiction piece.  I knew I wanted to do baseball but I just didn’t know what.  I also knew I wanted to base it around my high school season and winning the state title, I just couldn’t think of a good enough story to tell.  I would have talked more about my homerun but I felt like that was too much navel gazing.  I was going to talk about how the relationship between my father and I grew because of the fact we both shared a huge love to baseball but I just couldn’t get a good enough focus around it.  I finally figured out what I wanted to talk about and it had to deal with our team manager Josh Rose.  Josh was always known as the kid who had messed up arms and legs and rode around on a wheel chair everywhere to class.  I’m glad I was able to meet Josh though.  Josh is one of the strongest people I’ve ever met.  I don’t know how I let him slip through when I was trying to come up with different ideas to write about.  I used to think the same exact things that everyone else did until I actually got to know Josh.  He is the true essence of a positive thinker.  No matter what obstacle he has been faced with he always has a good attitude about it and somehow or someway completes it.  He became a superstar after we won States.  One of the coolest moments I’ve ever been involved in was when we finally had a ceremony at half time of a basketball game to get our rings.  Everyone was called out one by one and Josh was the last one to be called.  He also got the biggest ovation.  Everyone stood and clapped for him as he huffed his way across the gym to receive his ring and the team started to chant “Hova! Hova!” as he walked across.  It’s funny how different moments in your life can still seem like they were just yesterday in your own mind.  That’s what makes writing them down so wonderful because every time you read what you wrote; it’s almost like reliving the moment.