Reading Response

This week I started a new book called "In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle" by Madeleine Blais. In the first pages of the book, a player describes a game where a team is totally out of sync and lose the championship. She describes the quiet bus ride home and feelings of disgust. The detailed explanation made me revisit these horrible losses throughout the season and remember what it is like to lose hope.
When you're as passionate about a sport as I am about basketball, you know that the worst feeling in the world is losing. It's just absolutely horrible. When your team loses, it feels like everything you've worked so hard for disappears. Eventually you get over it and work even harder, but for that bus ride home and sleepless night, all you can think about is what you could have changed. I'm sure that in the book, the mood will change and move  towards the topic of recovering and keeping hope.