As a child I was never really athletic. In PE I would always shy away from the ball. I got an A in the class for showing up and "participating", but the truth is I put on my gym uniform and stood in a corner as far away from the action as I could get. Turns out the only thing I was really good at was dodgeball. I was so good at dodging the ball that I always ended up being the last one standing on my team. The one everybody depended on to hit the backboard so they could get out of jail and back in the game. The one who got laughed at when I nervously picked up a ball and threw it as hard as I could, only to watch in defeat as it followed the laws of gravity and fell back to the ground, five feet away.
Towards the end of my years in PE, I grew to learn what the class was really about. It doesn't actually stand for public embarrassment. It doesn't really matter how good you are at the sport, as long as you have fun! The point of the class is to teach you how to have fun while exercising to stay healthy. I found that when I laughed at myself along with everyone else, it was easier to shrug it off and have fun.
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