🕸 At Nat and my school they have a massive focus on volleyball, and I guess P.E. in general, it is like the centre of their universe.
You won a solid gold trophy for being the youngest winning participant in a world wide competition of Mathematics? Yeah, okay, cool, well done.
WHAT? A B in P.E.? Your life is RUINED.
Okay, that was maybe a slight exaggeration, but not much.
I honestly get so embarrassed over the fact that I am utterly and incorrigibly terrible at any sport; especially those involving balls (please no dirty jokes here.) I just turn into a groping, (I'm serious, mind out of the gutter.) butterfingered fool who couldn't throw anything further than ten metres away even if the fate of our galaxy depended on me.
And I think it's really unfair, because there is the consistent trend of the popular people, -even if it's in one of those cliché, American, high school romance novellas- being incredibly and incoherently perfect in anything sporty or athletic. Either that or you're fashionably bad at it, everyone gives you a pat on the back and says 'well done' when you lob the ball into the opposition's goal.
So come on you good people of society, (hahaha, did I just use the good word with society? O.o ) give all us outcasts; the gamers, the trekies, the star wars coz-players, the emo-grungy kids with piercings and bad tempers, the bookworms, the kids with that loveable extra layer around them, the kids who barely speak the language, the anime otaku's and every other kid who has ever been sneered at in Phys ED a chance. Because we can't all be olympic medalists.
(Dammit, I'm becoming my mum with her motivational speeches ;-; cry with me please) 🕸
- R🕸se
