2010 will mark my 11th year as a member of the Ateneo Swim team, making me the longest and oldest member of the team. Every time I think about it, I am always shocked by how fast every thing transpired. Using the cliche of all cliches, it feels as if it was only yesterday that I got accepted in the varsity as a 9 year old kid in the fourth grade. I remembered that day vividly. In a pool of about 30 aspirants, I was the only who got accepted in my batch thanks in part to one of the seventh graders who knew me due to our affiliation with our subdivision's swim team. Okay, so I wasn't actually a snotty-nosed green-horn since I already had a lot of experience--competition, training and all that--but it was rather intimidating since I was the youngest in the team. Adding that to the fact that I didn't have a batchmate during that time really gave me extreme bouts of inferiority complex and loneliness. As lonely as I was, I was eventually welcomed by my older teammates and some of them eventually became very good friends. Yeah, it's really tough being the only new kid on the block but when you have the sort of teammates I did, it wasn't at all bad.
Well, that is actually the whole point of this blog. I have this sort of curse growing up that I never had a batchmate or someone with the same age in any of the teams I represented. Well, that is not exactly true since I did have teammates who are also my batchmates but none of them lasted as long as I had. It really saddens me every time I think about it but what can I do? They made their own decisions and I made mine. What could I do if my decision and theirs did not reconcile.
It gives me comfort that unlike in high school, I will not be the only one leaving the team after graduation. That means a lot to me.
However, I am still the only one graduating who is at this certain level in swimming. But that is another tale.
Take your mark!
Well, that is actually the whole point of this blog. I have this sort of curse growing up that I never had a batchmate or someone with the same age in any of the teams I represented. Well, that is not exactly true since I did have teammates who are also my batchmates but none of them lasted as long as I had. It really saddens me every time I think about it but what can I do? They made their own decisions and I made mine. What could I do if my decision and theirs did not reconcile.
It gives me comfort that unlike in high school, I will not be the only one leaving the team after graduation. That means a lot to me.
However, I am still the only one graduating who is at this certain level in swimming. But that is another tale.
Take your mark!
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