*Finding my drive without volleyball*

Even though everything is great with volleyball and it is basically my motivation to get good grades and graduate school.....there has to be more to me than volleyball! A wise woman made me ask myself if I was still going to have that same enthusiasm and drive once volleyball is over......I could not answer her! It became clear then that yes, it is good that volleyball motivates me, but I need to find out what else motivates me along with volleyball. She made me realize volleyball should not be my sole purpose for wanting to do something especially if I have to do it. I need to find something else along with that, which will help keep that same drive! Anything can happen and in a blink of an eye the one thing that I have always gave my all to could be gone, and then what?! As much as I hated that conversation, because I felt like she was not listening to my points or did not understand where I was coming from....she was right and I was wrong! I now realize that, I thought about what she said all night and because I know she would never tell me anything that was not in my best interest, digging deep and finding out what else motivates me is all I can think about! It takes balls to say what she said to me knowing what volleyball means to me, even though she knew she was right. I love her for that and I am so blessed to have a mentor like her.

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."Henry Ward Beecher