Life changing lessons come from many different sources, however this lesson came from a most unlikely source, a video. It happened one evening while I was hanging out with some friends watching a movie. However the movie became boring, so we decided to go on YouTube and watch some interesting videos. One video that caught our attention was a hockey goal made by a Michigan player who had obviously masterful stick handling skills. While watching this Michigan goal over and over again, we decided that this goal would be almost impossible for any of us to perform. This statement however prompted us to make bets with each other saying how we would be the first one to be able to learn this trick.
I was introduced to hockey in my sophomore year in high school only because I was able to skate well. So naturally while I can skate around fine, my stick handling skills were lacking. Knowing that I lagged behind all my friends who started playing hockey when they were 7 or 8 years old, I had no time to lose. For two weeks I watched the video repeatedly and I considered learning this trick second only to my school work. Everything else I enjoyed doing when I had free time was thrown aside so I could practice; hanging with friends to watch movies was postponed, as was playing computer games after homework, and I even stopped reading novels. I did all this not because I wanted to win a bet, but because I wanted to actually learn this shot.
When I was finally able to master it, and showed it to my experienced friends they were dumbfounded because out of all of us, I was never expected to learn it much less be the first one to do so. It was from this little period in my life that I realized when there is a will, there is a way. I know for a fact that I have a way to succeed at Temple, because I have the will to.