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We had to right stories on lessons we have learned in life and send them to the dominion post. This is mine.

A lesson that changed my life on the sports field for ever.

It must be coming up two years now since the day that I learnt one of the most important lessons of my life. It has changed the way I look at sport and in someways life in general.

I was eleven at the time I learnt my lesson. At the time I was going through a tough time, my parents had split and we had just moved in to a new house and school in Greytown. I was looking at life from a very negative angle and the only light in the darkness that surrounded me was through my sport. The only problem was that nobody wanted to play sport with me.

I love to play soccer more than anything in the world, but i was probably the dirtiest player you would ever meet. Losing wasn’t an option to me, and when we did the toys where thrown out of the pram. It was never my fault that we lost, always the others around me.

My life continued like this until one day my Mums partner, Jim, came up to me after the game and explained to me how one day nobody would want to play with me and how it would seem like life was bad now but it could only get worse if I continued like I was now.

Those words and others that Jim said to me that day have changed my life. I now look at all forms of life from a positive angle and no longer take my anger out on the sports field or the people around me.

By Hugh McCoshim 12 Greytown Primary School