I’ve been an avid player for fourteen years, and I absolutely love this sport. Badminton is one of the major sources of happiness in my life. Because of the amount I have learned from it, I will explain them in more detail below: Apart from being high-speed aerobic exercise, badminton holds a deep meaning in my life. I’ve learned the lessons of discipline, adaptability, hard work, constantly trying to improve my game, fair play and sportsmanship, strategy and tactics, understanding the phycology of the opponent, living in the moment, and most importantly enjoying the sport. The first value of discipline was built because of the desire to mastering the sport. Before badminton I use only to play computer games, I was overweight and lazy. The reason I started playing was that all the pretty girls use to play badminton at my school and I wanted to be friends with them. But later on, badminton became more important than girls. Badminton became more important than computer games. It chan
It starts with a thought, a grand thought of being someone great. Then I look outside and see many great people doing great things, people more successful than me, people stronger than me, people in better relationships. Then I start to wonder what do I value? Why is it important to me? I look in. As humans, we are constantly comparing our value in the social hierarchy, many people have illusory hierarchies, many people think this is a game of showing whos the biggest meanest person without being anything of substance. That is my fear, and that is what I hate the most. I want to be a person of value, a person who creates value from what he does. I hope my ideas, words and actions are valuable. In a lot of ways we are in the best of times, there's a network of activities which support our lives. At the same time, there is a strange desire of sticking to what we know and following routines to avoid disasters. The fear of change is crippling, sometimes even for me. But the desire f