Holiday Task 1

Trained hard, backed out from competition


Sitting at the rocking chair at my garden, remembering the incident that I have always regretted all my life. The memory has been haunting me since the incident happened, I began to blame myself for losing the championship that I could have won, but then after much consolation from my dearest brother and after thinking that it is no use to keep brooding over the past, I began to calm down naturally. But still I kept on remembering the incident as it was still very vivid on my mind.

Gripping my badminton racket with enormous strength, I swang my racket and hit the shuttlecock harshly to the opponent's side of the field and scored a point. Badminton was my passion and i enjoyed playing badminton very much which of course made me quite a skillful player after much practice in the recent years as report states that a good work requires one percent creativity and ninety-nine percent hard work.

Due to my hard work for all this while, I was chosen to attend the summer's badminton championship by my school. When I first heard the news that I was chosen I became speechless. I joined the badminton CCA just for fun and never expected that I would represent my school to fight for the championship nationwide. This world is indeed full of unexpected surprises which is a very good thing indeed.I continued to train hard after i heard the news as I wanted to do my school proud for the first time ever in my life.

The days were near, and i was totally prepared for the competition. The first match was quite easy for me as I single-handedly defeated my opponent. The match kept getting harder and harder but I still defeated every opponent that stood in my way. Soon i reached the finals and so
I was well-known at my school. I practiced day and night and without rest and was really very nervous at that time.

One day before the finals, a very mesmerizing and elegant girl came and introduced herself to me. She was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen in my life. She came to ask if i could go on a date with her the next day, and I just agreed to her, without giving it a second thought. She gave me her number and she left.

On the next day, i just realized this day was both when the finals are held and also when the mysterious girl and i had date. I soon had to choose whether to go out with this girl or to attend the championship finals and I finally chose to go out with this girl, this is where i made the biggest mistake of my life. I informed my teacher that I have backed out from the competition for personal issues and he was very disappointed in me.

I went to the place where we decided our date will be, but she was nowhere to be seen, I called her number but she did not answer the call and so i just waited there for a whole day like a silly fool. After a few hours, I realized that I had just been fooled. I lost the chance to win the championship because of a girl, I trained hard for nothing at the end and this is my deepest regret.