I can't make up my mind...

AxL

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For years I have done football. My first year of pop warner, I was overweight by 15 pounds. In about a month I had lost that weight and was on the team for good. I have never been the best (infact one of the worst) football players, on any team I have played, but I enjoy the sport a lot. So anyway... during the last week of Augast everybody on the varsity/jv team needs to come to a conditioning camp. It starts on Sunday (Augast 29) and goes to Saturday (September 4). So the first couple days were ok. However I came down with some kind of stomach ache and I got pretty sick (puked a couple times) and on Tuesday I just didn't think I could finish the camp. I told the Coach how I felt. I told him how I felt, which basicilly was I wasn't sure if I wanted to play anymore, and that things just didn't feel like they were going my way. So he told me to think about it overnight, and I did. I quit.

Flash back to 3-4 days ago. I started thinking if I made the right choice. So I kept thinking about it and again I thought I made a good choice. I was going to go to the coach on the first day of school and tell him that I wanted back in (yesterday). I go to the coaches office and I tell him I want a second chance. He told me since I left camp early that it looks bad on me. He told me it looks like I just left camp to get out of the work, so I could join the team again. He told me he would have to talk to the other coaches about it first, and to come back to him today.

So today I starting think what I should do again, and I still couldn't make a choice. So I though hopefully by the end of the school day I could arrive at one. False. I started walking towards the locker room, and the coaches office, and I still couldn't make up my mind. So at the last second I took the turn towards the bus and away from the locker room. On the bus I started debating again, and I was going to get off the bus and join, but the bus started moving.

So now I have two choices. I have the choice of going to the coaches office tommorow and telling him I had a doctors appointment and I couldn't have come. Or I can just forget about it, and end my football career as a quiter.

It is like a never ending war in my head. Two sides are constantly fighting, but no chance to win. I can't make up my mind, so I thought typing all this and getting some ideas from people would help.

Cheers.
 

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Lies never help, I'm sure in a case such as yours the coach would be wise enough to question your commitment to the team and ask for a doctors note or something... anyways, this is your decision, dunno why ur asking us here, because you'll probably be flammed as well. Meh, I'd say go back, but that's because my work ethic doesn't allow me to quit something, I see everything through to the end. but thats just me :)
 

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Shadow1psc2k said:
Lies never help, I'm sure in a case such as yours the coach would be wise enough to question your commitment to the team and ask for a doctors note or something... anyways, this is your decision, dunno why ur asking us here, because you'll probably be flammed as well. Meh, I'd say go back, but that's because my work ethic doesn't allow me to quit something, I see everything through to the end. but thats just me :)
Being flamed in my own section? Sorry but anyone that is dumb enough to do that...

Either way you maybe right.
 

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I hate decisions so I wont tell you what to do, but I'll toss out some advice, do what you like to do man, if you like football, play football, if you don't, don't. That's all I can say really.
 

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Tell them about the doctors appointment and try to get back in. You'll feel terrible if you don't give it a try. Otherwise you'll be thinking 'Why didn't i just try that last time'.

Regrets hurt more then rejection.
 

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Yea. If you don't try to get back in, you will constantly think ''What if'' still. A doctors note, or reccomendation might help you here. Some proof you had something wrong with your stomach and that you didn't quit just to get out of the work, because I know you play football and love it based on what you tell us here. As Renzokuken said, regrets hure more then rejection. If you get rejected, It's better then never doing it and finding out later that you ''could have'' gotten back on the team, but just never tried to begin with because you were fearful of rejection. Hope this helps, and WB AxL.
 

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Football is too strickt. My....."friend" was on Football team and missed a practice and was off also. Weird.


Anyway, If you feel so strong about playing Football then go to the coach and I would just tell him the truth. If you arent on the team then it isnt meant to be.

If football is fun to you then go to the coach. If you want it that badly then it shouldn't be a problem approaching that guy and telling him. If you have doubts about it, then dont play. A sport is something to have fun with and not care about if you suck or what. It all depends on if you want it. Hope it helped :)
 

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First off...which ever you choose, tell your coach. if you want to join, then come to him and tell him that. if you want to quit, tell him that you changed your mind. dont be a pussy and just dont confront him.
 

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Don't quit football. I made that mistake with soccer. You will be happy for a short while but you will start to miss it and wish you could go back.
 

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I felt the same way about playing football early on this season. But I had to think things out until the night before the first practice. This is my senior year of football, and I will never be able to play this game again. Most people don't get a chance to play in a D1 or D2 college or in the NFL. Might as well have fun with it while it lasts.

Sure with me being overweight makes me tired, but I still hang in there. Right now my finger is a huge bruise, and I love it. Im addicted to pain. :loopy I enjoy playing football, and if you don't AxL. Then the game is not right for you. Sure practice is not fun, its hard work, and I know this being an linemen.

I enjoy kicking the shit out of the guy across the line of me, if you do too, then by all means play football.
 

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This decision is wholy yours but the coaches with automaticly think that you are trying to take the easy way out either way you decide, if you will have more fun playing then play if not you dont have a reason to bust your ass, football is hard work and if you dont really want to be in it there is no reason for you to play
 

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I'd go out playing. But everyone must quit sometime.
 

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Ask to play again if you still really want to play. Just do it. Like everyone else said, regrets are worse than being rejected. If you have proof you were actually sick then you will probably still be able to play. Meh, but it's really your choice to make.
 

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