Your life is defined by what you love.
Let’s get something straight: You never fully understand the true value of something, until you leave it.
And I’m hoping, it’ll never leave. But sooner or later, like everything else in this unfair world, it will just go.
For as long as I can remember, it’s been a part of me. It’s always been a part of me. Under the influence of my parents, it gradually became a part of my lifestyle, something I cannot live without. I started when I was four, and for twelve years I still continue to do it with the same amount of passion I used to have when I was four. It’s something that I genuinely like, and so many other things that I’ve given up on – swimming, piano, rollerblading, ballet ( yes I really did use to do ballet ) and even track and field, I’ve never once thought about giving up on this. I’ve always treated it like the greatest thing on Earth, something that gives me joy at my darkest moments, and frankly speaking, 90% of my mood depends on it. For my whole life, I’ve been involved with it. I started off watching people do it, then I gradually grew old enough to try it out myself. I’m not a prodigy, I didn’t start off too well, but I’m not too bad either.
They say, you know when you’re truly in love with something.
I know I am.
Definitely, school has given me a great platform to display my love and skills for it. I feel like without school, I would’ve been so deprived. Yet of course, one day we are going to graduate, there will be a time when I am forced to reduce contact with that one thing I know I truly love, and as I age, there will finally be one day I put down my last racket, stop wearing my last pair of shoes and tell myself, you’re too old to continue anymore.
For my whole life, it has accompanied me, and it will continue to accompany me for as long as my body allows, and until the end of my life badminton will always be a part of my one true passion.
This is God’s gift to me. To love something undyingly is a great blessing.
I am thankful there’s something I truly love, because life is nothing when you have no passion.
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