Competition

I am a competitor.

It just happens to be part of who I am. I've played team sports forever (since I was 3 years old) and I don't just play: I play to win. Sure just playing to have fun happens every once in a while, but in reality it starts to wear on me if everyone is just off doing their thing and we can't succeed. Like in high school gym classes. We would go play floor hockey and as a hockey player I would know what I was doing, but my team wouldn't. This doesn't mean that the sport itself wasn't any fun, but I have a need to win. I drive for it. I strive for it. I work at it. But one man does not a team make. In floor hockey there are 6 players and I am but one of them working in a team setting.

I need a team.

Not only that, but I need a competitive team. A team that will always try to work as a cohesive unit and understand what it is that makes a team. Not everyone can be right. Not everyone can know what's best. We also need a coach. Someone who has a sense of respect from the team in his/her knowledge of the sport. Someone who isn't a player I think.

I think I'll go crazy if I can't have a legitimately competitive team because I hate being stomped in every team sport here at UAF (except soccer).

It sucks.