4th~ If I knew then what I know now...

              When I was young, I didn’t like any sports. I’d rather stay inside and read books or play some cards and I didn’t care even if everybody except me tried to go outside and play some sports. To me, sports had never attracted me at all. Even when I couldn’t get good grade in my PE class, I thought it was not bad since my parents told me it was not something that I can improve easily and they rather wanted me to focus on study.

              However, it’s been one of my regrets in my life since I got into high school. Influenced by some of my friends, I got to be interested in watching sports like soccer, baseball, American football and so on. Then I came to want to play some sports. However, since I hadn’t had enough experience about sports, I couldn’t play well many of them. When it came to team sports, I couldn’t follow my teammates and I had a hard time playing there. At least, it was not a fun to me.

              Actually, I began running when I got into junior high school and some strength of my body has improved since then. But I’m sure others have not, like balance, throwing balls and so on. According to my PE teacher, these skills should be developed by the age of around 12 or 13. I hadn’t known that at that time, and I realized it was too late.

              Above all, if I knew these, I’d play more sports when I was younger. I’m still trying to develop my physical potential through some exercise and sports, but this disadvantage will prevent me.

              Another thing that I know regret is that I went to boys’ junior high and high school. Of course, my life there was a fun. I’d established good friendship with many people there and we didn’t need to care so many things like keeping everything clean since there was no girl. But after all, I realized that my experience there sometimes makes me awkward when I talk to girls. And I can’t get what girls really think.

             I won’t have any opportunity to get into the world where there’s no girl, so I need to overcome this problem. However, I think junior high and high school are the best places to learn how to interact with different people, and it is disadvantage for me that I was in school with no girl. I still think there’s a gap between me and others who went to coeducational school.

              Some people say it’s not always true that boys and girls can establish good relationship even in coeducational school. But I want to say whether you are with all boys or not make great difference. I used to feel like that girls are different creatures because I don’t know them and I was not with them.

             

              Although there’re more things that I regret now, I want to come to think that it’s also challenges in my life. I need to face them. Also I have much more things that I’m glad I could do. I think our lives can have many aspects according to how we think.