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Personal Narrative: Playing Collegiate Level Basketball

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Everyday people have the opportunity to determine and construct their own decisions and fulfill personal desires. People don 't control their fate, however their destiny lies within their own hands. Believing in fate means supernatural power beyond your control predetermines your life. Ambition and effort towards your goal will determine the outcome of your future. Through experience I 've conquered and obtained my long term goal of playing collegiate level basketball. I would not have this opportunity if I wasn 't ardent about my aspirations in achieving success on the basketball court. In order for me to have the capability of achieving my objective, it was vital that I expand my deftness and fundamentals of the game. If I had not put

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