Not a day goes bye that I do not wish to go back in time and grind once again in the wrestling room with my old teammates. I miss how hot the room got when all of us where in their wrestling around, and running around if we were not listening to the coach. Also, I miss the feeling of accomplishment you get when you had finally learned a new moved and you were actually using it in a match against somebody. Then I miss the beating music that was playing in the foreground as we all were wrestling. But alas, I can only lay in bed and remember those times in my head, though there are a few ways that wrestling has helped me in life to this very day.
Ever since I started wrestling, I was responsible for keeping track of my weight. Before the season would start all the wrestler where required to get certified for their weight class and it was your responsibility for you to keep your weight at that weight or even a little lower. Today, I still use that mentality in my school telling myself that it is my responsibility to get things done.
Even though there are people who may think that wrestling is an individual sport it is not, it takes teamwork to make yourself and others better at wrestling. I use that mentality today, I play college soccer and it is my responsibility to make myself and my fellow teammates better both on the field and off the field.
The final way that wrestling has helped in real life is the ability to push through things that seem difficult. I can remember my wrestling coach would put us through his circuits which included duck walks, bear crawls, wheel barrels, sprinting, and other stuff, but I had to push through the pain that I was feeling in order to get it done. When I have to write a paper in college I have to push through it in order to get the paper done. Also when life is hard I know that if I keep pushing through it, I know that I will come out strong in the end.
Though there's a lot more that wrestling has helped me with in adult life, all I can do is lay back and remember the good times and the bad times I had when I was wrestling. I know for a fact that when I start to have kids, when they are of age they are going to wreste because it will help them in the long run as it did for me.
