My life

When asked to write about my life I really had no idea where to start. After I thought about it more I decided, well, I guess I should probably start at the beginning. I was born in Provo Utah, on July 7, 1989. My parent’s names are Craig and Pam Young. I have two older brothers and a little sister. My whole life I have gone by AJ, but my real name is Andrew Jay Young. My parent’s named me after both of my grandparents, which I feel is pretty cool. I was a very hard child to manage. My parent’s always tell me that they could never take their eyes off of me. If they did, I would find a way to get my self into mischief. I have been told many stories like ending up head first in the washer, drinking my moms cleaning fluid, dropping a whole carton of eggs, which are just a few. I have only broken one bone in my body. When I was five, I was riding my bike with my friend to his house, as we were riding I was turning and talking to him without realizing that there was a parked car right in front of me. I turned my head just in time to brace to minimize the damage, but I still ended up breaking my left collar bone. I can’t really remember much about it, except for that it hurt really bad and I couldn’t move my arm.
At a very young age I started playing many sports, I loved baseball, soccer, tennis, and swimming. Slowly as I got older I started dropping sports and focusing more intently on just a few sports. By the time I was fourteen I had a really hard decision in my life. At that point I played soccer and tennis nearly every day. It got very hard on my body so I had to decide to drop one of the sports, and focus completely on one sport. I thought about it very hard and decided that I could have a lot of opportunities in tennis, so I stopped playing soccer and devoted my time entirely to tennis. From that point on I trained really hard, and set a lot of goals for my self so I could possibly achieve great things with my tennis.
But, having the good parents I do, they stepped in and really made me realize that there was a little thing called school. I began to focus more on my school knowing that if I wanted to a major university for my tennis, I would also have to have good enough grades to be accepted by that university. Having to manage those two things in my life taught me a lot of great lessons. I had to learn great time management, how to work really hard, always stay positive, and never stop setting goals.
Because of my parents, and the decisions I have made in my life, I am where I am today. If it was not for them I would not be writing you this paper today or even know you. I credit my parent’s very much for the success I have had in my life, and I hope they continue to persuade me to make right decisions so I can continue that success in the upcoming years.
There is now way I could write all the things that have happened in my life in six hundred words, but I feel like these are a couple of the big steps I had to take in my life to get to where I am right now.