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Today is a significant day. Today marks a day where I made a decision. Today is a fork in the road of life.
I quit the debate team.
While my coaches doubt the sincerity of my decision, I am very serious in my choice. I joined debate for the wrong reasons.
1) I thought I'd be good at it.
Frankly, I didn't give myself a chance to see if this would be true or not- things just worked out where I wasn't really getting much support in my endeavors and I didn't enjoy that at all.
2) It looks good on a college application.
The college I'm going to should probably take me for other things before they take me for being on the debate team. I'm on my library's Teen Council and I'll be doing the spring musical if I make it.
3) My brothers did it- it's tradition.
Unfortunately, traditions don't often work for me. I am not my brothers, so debate just doesn't strike that love-at-first-sight that they had.
(I also joined because it meant spending time with a guy I liked at the beginning of the year. Best-laid plans...)
So, I made the mature, informed decision to quit debate. I am NOT going to change my mind later- I would only be deluding myself that I'd enjoy something I find so nerve-wracking, boring, and painful.
I quit the debate team.
While my coaches doubt the sincerity of my decision, I am very serious in my choice. I joined debate for the wrong reasons.
1) I thought I'd be good at it.
Frankly, I didn't give myself a chance to see if this would be true or not- things just worked out where I wasn't really getting much support in my endeavors and I didn't enjoy that at all.
2) It looks good on a college application.
The college I'm going to should probably take me for other things before they take me for being on the debate team. I'm on my library's Teen Council and I'll be doing the spring musical if I make it.
3) My brothers did it- it's tradition.
Unfortunately, traditions don't often work for me. I am not my brothers, so debate just doesn't strike that love-at-first-sight that they had.
(I also joined because it meant spending time with a guy I liked at the beginning of the year. Best-laid plans...)
So, I made the mature, informed decision to quit debate. I am NOT going to change my mind later- I would only be deluding myself that I'd enjoy something I find so nerve-wracking, boring, and painful.