I would like to think of myself as a good sport but since I can remember I have always been a pretty sore loser. In ballet I always wanted the best roles, I was driven and would work extremely hard to accomplish some of those roles. Like Clara in the Nutcracker:


Picked to dance in Mozartiana with  Susan Jaffe: (I am the one staring at Susan Jaffe dancing when I should be looking like the other dancers)


Wanting to come in first at our annual Schiliterbahn Raging River Tube Shoot:


When I first started out in soccer wanting to score every goal imaginable:


Coming in second place every year in state, hitting the cross bar more than anyone EVER:


And then pushing myself to get a college soccer scholarship where I would only be almost average compared to my teammates:

Now that I am in the working world I play sports for "recreation" and I constantly find myself walking the line between fun and competitiveness  I think it is a family trait seeing as my almost 90 year old grandma complains about all the "old people" that can't bowl. However, I think maybe by the time I am 30 I will be able to lose at a sport and not have a bitter taste in my mouth and NOT feel the urge to want to beat some people up.

Heading into 2012 I made a list of things I hoped to accomplish throughout the year. Let's just say 2012 wasn't THE year. However, I managed to do some things but not others and instead of feeling like a failure I am just going to take that list and expand upon it. Things don't always go according to plan or how you envisioned it but it's good to set hopes/goals and give yourself a direction to head, even if the direction takes you off the beaten path. With that said I hope for the same things I did last year but with a few new additions and subtractions.