Lutz's+Journal+2

I chose this journal because it was easy for me to write a response. I talked a lot about my time consuming practice and work out schedual and how it was not an addiction but a choice by me. It really made me think about people who are addicted to things in their life and how it would be hard to make a change.

“Cookies or Heroine”

Many people have things that they love to spend all their time doing. For me, I enjoy spending most of my time playing sports and exercising. I love the outdoors and I love being active. I play two sports: soccer and lacrosse. These two sports have occupied my whole life for the past four years of high school. I play lacrosse in the summer, fall, winter and spring; yes year-round. On top of that I play soccer in the fall and condition for the season in the summer. So I am busy training and exercising 24/7. Does this lifestyle show addiction, absolutely not? I prefer this type of life because it keeps me healthy and strong. I could easily quit sports and just sit on the couch all day eating chips, but I choose not to because that type of life is not what I want for myself.

There are some advantages and disadvantages of being busy all the time. I can’t really do many things on the week days due to practice. But that doesn’t bother me because most of my friends play the same sports, so I get to spend each day with them during the week and again on the weekend. An advantage to being busy all the time is that the strict schedule which I work keeps me out of trouble. I go to school, the to practice, than home. Most people would say that is a disadvantage because I never get time to have fun, but I don’t mind because it keeps me out of trouble.