SOCCER: EVERYONES LIFE CHANGING SPORT

I am who I am today because of soccer. soccer has changed my life, it has built me up in every way possible. Besides just having a healthy life style, I am emotional stable, physically strong, and spiritually faithful all because of soccer. Soccer is my life and I owe soccer my life. I truly am willing to give my life to soccer because what it has done for me.
If I did not play soccer I would be excessively fat or skinny, ugly, and basically all together unhealthy. I look in the mirror and can see how the game of soccer has shaped my body. I see myself as chiseled as a statue. I know I would be mis-shaped because I can see that in other members of my family who aren't living such an active life style. Soccer has maintained my metabolism as a burning furnace. All my life I have had a great appetite. Soccer gives me an outlet for all that ingested energy. I believe if it weren't for soccer my appetite would be the same, but my weight would be shockingly higher.

If soccer wasn't in my life I would be shy, I would be insecure, I would lack any ounce of courage. Soccer in my youth gave me the reason to exist in school and in life. My worst grades I have ever receive were when I wasn't playing soccer. Soccer was my only outlet for real friends, it was the only way I had to express myself. I have the positive self esteem I need to survive because of soccer. I am sure I would be suffering long bouts of depression and even thoughts of suicide.
Soccer of course has strengthened my body. I have a high output of energy in all that I do. I feel capable of any physical test. Some physical tests I can not control. But that doesn't mean I can not over come them. I was struck with a rare disease that paralyzed me. Soccer was my motivation to walk again. Doctors said that I wouldn't be able to play soccer again, but that only motivated me more to get back into the sport I love.
I have always known that drugs and alcohol affect the body. So I have lived my life far away from those so that my body would function properly to play the game I love. If I hadn't been a soccer player I know that I would be doing drugs and alcohol. I would have no motivation not to.
I have discovered that righteous thoughts control how I play. I have kept my thoughts in line so that my ability in soccer would not be decreased . I suffered two of my teenage years as a rebel, because I decided not to play soccer. My thoughts

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