We were in  the outfield getting tossed pop flys when all of a sudden I am on the ground surrounded by everyone on my team. I was nine and it was my first practice ever. I was nervous but excited to be playing on a team... My mom and little brother Levi got there and the sun was shining in my face as I ran to the field.
  “Everyone get over here .” my coach’s voice rumbles in my ears “Let's see what you guys can do, ok?”
We started doing four things: batting, catching, hitting, and throwing.
  “Ok let’s go out to the outfield and do some pop flies,”  my coach says as he is My coach says as he runs out to the field.”running out there. Then what would happen next would change softball for me forever.
We all raced to the field for balls to be thrown to us.
“I got it” I yelled. Then it's like I went into a dark room when everything went black… When one of my eyes open I was surrounded by my whole team looking down at me. I was trying to open my eye, but it was not working. All I could think was have I gone blind, I couldn’t have from a softball. Could I?
“I can’t open my eye!” I cried. Luckily one of my coaches was a nurse and came to look at  my eye.
She said: “you're fine you just got a goose egg.”
When she said that it felt like a huge relief.
After that first practice I was scared of the ball; so after that season was over I didn’t play softball for 2 years. Then when I was in 7th grade I thought let's just try-out and see what happens. When I got on the team I was happy and now I play softball all the time.
When I started playing softball again I realized that I loved it and you can’t live in fear because living in fear isn’t actually living. Living in fear is not doing the things you love to do. Even Though the picture of my team in the outfield when I got hit in the eye is still there it doesn’t scare me anymore.