Twelve-year-old boys throw baseballs. They hit home runs and celebrate their touchdowns.
I can’t throw a baseball and I definitely can’t leap high into the air to snag a football in the end zone.
But I absolutely can entertain a group of people and make them smile. I am a 12-year-old boy who can dance, sing and act.
I started off like most boys. I tried being on a baseball team for three years. At first I enjoyed it because it was new, but soon after I got bored and then quit. It just wasn’t fun to me because it just never seemed to fit my personality.
I also tried soccer, karate and tennis but I quit those too even though I was really excited to try them out. I wanted to do something after school for fun, but all the activities I was trying out didn’t stick.
I remember that the first play I saw was Peter Pan, a play that my big sister Kylie was in.
When I saw her performing her heart out and making the whole audience smile, it made me want to be up on stage doing that too.
This story is from the June 2020 edition of The Good Life.
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