When I looked onto the soccer field that cold fall day in October, all I could see was . . . the wet grass, but it also looked dry as the desert. The sun was out but it ironically felt like winter. I stepped next to my dad. He was going to put me into the game. This would be the day I played a new position and scored my first goal. 

He tells me that i'm going in and to see how one of our player is playing and tell me that i'm going to play in his position but this player plays a position I suck at. I worried because i've never played forward. My palms were sweaty. All I could think about was failing not making my dad proud .

I tell my dad “But dad i don't know how to play forward”

“Don't worry” he tells me

“I trust him but not myself”

He tells me “ I know you don't play forward but I know you can play great”

I felt like I went to mess up and make myself look stupid doing something wrong and everyone would be disappointed. I go and wait at the sideline and wait for the referee to let me sub. I stepped on the field playing center forward. I played for and mess up and make mistakes but we are still winning. I passed the ball around and try some tricks. sprinting like a cheetah after its prey.

I crossed the ball it flies through air like an eagle soaring through the sky. I’m waiting there for the corner didn't know what to do standing there thinking what I am i even doing here. The ball comes my direction I acted like a spring and jumped in midair and my foot slashes the ball right in center and then I hear the ball crash into the net the screams of the fans the footsteps like a stampede of bulls of friends running towards me. Felt like forever that i was in mid air instead of a couple seconds felt like a lifetime of glory

This experience changed me and taught me new stuff. It changed me because now i'm more confident and try new stuff. I'm longer scared of messing up because even though I mess up it's a part of learning. I learned what confidence really means. This has changed me into the person I Am now. I even play forward now but not all the time