单选题
As I was growing up, my life went around soccer(足球). I played on the national youth soccer teams, and travelled to Europe. At age fifteen, I spent a summer
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with a professional team in England. I always knew I was going to be a professional soccer
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. I had a
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soccer scholarship to a top Midwest university.
But when I got to college, things began to
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. I started to see everything I had missed
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the way. My high school years had been filled
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practices and games and I didn"t get to do a lot of the other things my friends were doing. At college, I
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to be "normal". I was feeling tired out and
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Finally, I decided to give
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the college life that was similar to my high school days. I walked away
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soccer and my scholarship.
I
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myself for the life I was living for a while because soccer was the only thing in my life for which I ever had a passion. After a
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of struggle, I went to another university and finished school there. Then I did quite a
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jobs. I worked in a financial company, then for an Internet company, etc. I
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wasn"t happy.
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back, I can see that these jobs weren"t based on the
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that were important to me: honesty, stability, and family. Then an old soccer coach(教练) of mine called and
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an opportunity-teaching soccer and other sports to little kids. I thought, "Could this be my calling?"
I"ve been teaching now for a
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of years and really love it. I"m working with kids,
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I enjoy. I"m playing soccer again. However, life is
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from that of the past days when I lived for only practices and games. Life is so colorful and attractive now!