How Basketball Makes Me More Confident

By: Cheric Hoseki Chin

Basketball is the first sport which I’m interested in. I’ve been playing basketball for 7 years. Basketball makes me more confident, and makes me like doing sport. Basketball also makes me healthier. 

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I was introduced to basketball by my childhood friend when I was in elementary school, and in that moment basketball slowly became my favorite hobby. For me basketball is not just a hobby because basketball motivated me to be more confident.

But I had a problem in basketball, the problem wa when I played with strangers I always got nervous and because of that my gameplay became bad. And because of that problem I stoped playing with other people and sometimes I played alone until 2023.

In 2023 I invited my close friend to play basketball and basketball quickly became his favorite hobby, and because of that I have a friend who can play with me. From that day we often play together and someday there’s a are strangers who want to join us to play and me and my friend and I decide to play with them. From that day I started to play with other people again and try to be more confident and brave.

After a few months I played with strangers, I feel more confident. I can also know new people through basketball, and I learned what teamwork and trust are. Until now basketball is still one of my favorite hobbies.