Blog 2

For me writing is like practicing baseball, you don’t really want to do it but to be successful you have to. In baseball you have to spend countless hours in the batting cage to obtain a good batting average and in writing you have to constantly practice and build on your writing skills to receive a good grade on the paper. I have never really been fond of writing and the only reason I wrote was to make the grade in class. The same was with baseball I didn’t really want to go hit baseballs for hours at a time when I could be hanging out with my friends but if I wanted to make the team and get to play I had to. I think this metaphor represents me very well because I’m willing to do what I don’t want to do in order to obtain a goal. I have learned from not only baseball but writing as well the more you practice the better you get and the more enjoyable it becomes. As of late I have started to enjoy writing more, I’m still not excited when I am assigned a five page paper but it definitely doesn’t ruin my day, instead I try to look to it as a chance to expand on my ideas and hopefully make the grade in the process. I no longer play baseball due to an arm injury but I think through playing almost my whole life it has definitely had a large influence on my life and even what I write about. That is why I feel like I can most closely associate writing with practicing baseball.