Matt Thomas
Language Arts 9
January 7th, 2008
My New Year’s Resolution
I am glad for the New Year because last year I had a bunch of problems and I am hoping to start fresh. I think one of my biggest problems I had was the fact that I am a big klutz, and have almost no coordination. I think that it is a big problem because one time in the beginning of the year I was ridding this brand new fire engine red racing bike around in the snow. Which could be a factor, but then I went to turn this corner around the back of an apartment when the bike ended up sliding out from under me, I landed on some glass and skid across the pavement. So I think that fact that I have amazingly horrible bad luck doesn’t not go well with bad coordination. I think there are a few ways that I can fix it, but mainly focusing on the little things that contribute to the bad coordination will help the most.
I think that part of the reason I have very bad coordination is that I don’t play many sports and I don’t get the exercise that many kids do normally get. I did think of that before, around the summer time I thought that maybe that doing tumbling, handstands and things like that may help with gaining balance. I tried it for a little bit and I did considerably well, for awhile. But then I got into the more advanced things. I was on this grassy hill it was pretty cold for a summer afternoon and I was stretching and I thought to myself “Hey I should try that walkover that I saw Rachel do.” And I went to the top of the hill and I started to do it. I thought I was actually going to make it too, but then I slipped the grass was still wet from the sprinklers and I ended up spraining my arm. I was just glad it didn’t break. Well I know that if tried a less dangerous sport it would help, because before I sprained my arm I did stopped tripping over my own feet for awhile. So I proposed that I should try a sport that will stretch me. I could start with yoga or something.
I figured out the hard way that putting myself in slightly dangerous situations makes my problem worse. I know this because one time when I was rock climbing, yes rock climbing, to get to this lake with this really beautiful, but kind of small waterfall The rope ended up slipping just a little bit and my foot of course slipped off the rock that it was on and I ended up scratching my arm, busing both my knees and spraining my wrist again for the third time that year. It was loads of fun. Anyway after that I figured it might be better if I didn’t deliberately put myself in that type of situations. even though I still went rocking climbing and things afterwards. But I learned to stop placing myself in between a rock and s sharp place, which helped me understand what I shouldn’t do.
I know that by adding my bad luck, not getting enough exercise and placing myself in dangerous situations is bad for me and my coordination. I know this because when you place yourself in dangerous situations with the proper exercise will get you hurt which is not going to help you regain coordination. Because you will try it once get hurt and nit want to retry it. Add bad luck you know you will get hurt. So by getting more exercise, not putting myself really dangerous situations that I am not trained, or well practiced enough to handle, and maybe getting a good luck charm should help in the end with my bad coordination.
