ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?

Not everyone has a passion for what they do, some do things because they simply have to. I was always told that if a school is willing to pay for my college through a sport, take the offer. Today that is the athlete mentality on college. Depending on  what type of school you go to, they can offer athletic scholarships. A division one school can offer full ride athletic scholarships, division two can offer partial athletic scholarships, and division three can not offer any athletic scholarships, instead they give academic ones. Some athletes know that their grades are not good enough to get into school and some know that they can not afford college without a scholarship of some sort. Athletics have been a way out for minorities for a very long time and will continue to be their pathway into a better future. So fun is only a concept that some athletes truly know or merely remember. Now days with rising tuition costs, more and more people are going to rely on athletic scholarships to pay their way through college. So for many athletes we lose the idea of fun when it comes to playing because it becomes our job. We lose the feeling that we got when we were five years old just carelessly running around, having fun, and we become tied down and worried about how our play will affect our future. We lose the concept of fun.

I have friends who play sports in college and many of them have athletic scholarships that help them pay for school. For some of my friends they truly love the sport they play and would have played even without a scholarship. They play because they love the sport and have fun while playing. Others are playing the sport only because they are getting a full ride scholarship off of their talents. They simply play to get a good education and to better their futures. What ever their reason for playing athletics should be fun! When we look back and see how we got to where we are today, its because we had fun all those years as kids playing the games we liked.