Welcome to the Modern Typewriter, a blog dedicated to entertaining people of all ages, internationally. I’m Alex, and I’m here to introduce the new purpose of the Modern Typewriter, an editorial takeover.
Hey guys, it’s Alex here. I decided to take a new turn for the Modern Typewriter, and turning it into an online journal for me to voice my opinions, thoughts, and feelings. I would like to call this an editorial takeover. As often as I possibly can, I will write a post about absolutely anything. Anything in the world, anything in my life, anything. So, I would like to formally introduce you to the Modern Typewriter, an online journal for a teenage girl who’s just trying to survive high school.
I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Alex, I am a high school student, and I play soccer. I’m not exactly the typical teenage girl in several ways that you’ll come to find out, but regardless, I still share many traits that they do.
And that leads us to our title of this post: “Faith, Love and Soccer.” These three things make up the majority of my life and without them, I truly have no idea where I’d be. Allow me to explain, in order, these incredibly important puzzle pieces that once put together, make up my life.
#1: Faith
I am Roman Catholic. I believe in God, I love God, and I trust in Him. I’m not a “Jesus freak” as some people say when they hear someone loves God, and I’m not someone that knows everything there is to know about Him either. Rather, I look to Him as a friend that is always there, someone who understands, and someone who will help guide me through life.
I’m not the best follower of Christ, no, I’ll admit that right now. I don’t go to church every Sunday, I don’t pray before each meal, and I don’t know any songs they sing in our church. Often times when I go to my church, I don’t even know what the Priest is saying or what he is trying to get across. Sometimes I just sit there quietly trying to figure out the meaning of the color of his fancy robe.
But even though I am not the best Roman Catholic that I could possibly be, I still love Jesus, and I still love God. I pray each night, I read Bible verses often, and I still trust Him with everything.
Up to about a year ago, my faith sucked. That’s another thing I’ll admit. It SUCKED. Horribly. I never prayed, I never even took a look in the Bible, and I rarely went to church. Maybe twice a year at Easter and Christmas, and even then, I begged my mom to just let me stay home. Why? I don’t even know. But then when February 2010 came around, after my brother left for Navy boot camp and after I realized I had not talked to my dad in over a year and a half (another whole story there), I realized that my life sucked. The life I was leading made no sense. Then it officially came to me when I listened to the song, “Let It Fade,” by Jeremy Camp. After listening to that song, I can truly say that it changed my life forever.
I listened to the song and realized that I needed to change. I began listening to more Jeremy Camp songs, I began to pray more, and I began to occasionally go to church more. We began to go to a more contemporary church, where it’s nondenominational and more casual. After that, I became even more enthralled with living a life of purpose. To this day, I continue going to that contemporary church, and I truly love it.
Since then, I’d like to believe I have become a better follower of God. I continue to do what I can in believing in Jesus Christ and I continue to hold strong faith.
#2: Love
Love. We all have it towards someone. We all have that certain person that we think of while listening to a Taylor Swift song; that person we tend to daydream about; and that person we always wish for when the clock strikes 11:11.
I am no different. I have one person that I can always be caught thinking about. However, one thing that does set me apart from the rest of the high school crowd is that I am bisexual. I am attracted to both males and females. And at the current moment, I am completely, hopelessly in love with a girl older than me. I can be caught thinking about her and I care for her happiness more than my own. That is what love is to me: caring about someone’s happiness more than my own and thinking about them more times in a day than I do myself.
Whether or not this girl feels the same (which is less likely), I am happy right now. I am happy where I am and I am happy being a good friend of hers. For me, that is all I can ever ask for.
#3: Soccer
That leads me to the third and final part of my life. Soccer.
I started playing soccer when I was nine years old. I was raised around it with my two older brothers having played since they were three years old. I began on he recreational level, not expecting any soccer skills to be there. What I expected was correct, I was horrible. But hey, I was only nine.
I played for a year and improved and when I turned ten, I moved up to a level called challenge. It was for kids who were slightly better than the recreational level, but not quite ready for the highest level called classic, which was fancy schmancy terms for travel soccer. I ended up staying in the challenge level for two years before realizing how competitive I was and how much I wanted to play at a high level of soccer. I tried out and made the lowest level classic team at another club. I played there for a year half of the time as a field player and the other half a goalkeeper.
The coach I had that year changed my life. His name was Alan, and he helped me decide to be a full-time goalkeeper. After making that crucial decision, I trained fully as a goalkeeper for a few months before making the top level team at that club. I became the starting goalkeeper for that team and played majority of the games, sharing the other games with another goalkeeper who I still remain friends with today.
After that year, however, I remain unsatisfied with the competitive drive that my team had somewhat lacked. We had been placed in the top division in our state and ended up being demoted for our record. I was unhappy. I sought out a rival club and tried out there. I ended up making the second team in the age group out of four, known as an elite team.
That brings us to this year. My team ended up tying fo first place in the top division in our state, winning all games except two. We won a tournament and came in third place in our bracket for another tournament. Overall, our season ended up being a great one, and I cannot wait for next year.
I also play high school soccer. I made my school’s JV women’s soccer team and I am the starting goalkeeper and I play 100% of every game (mainly for the fact that I am the only goalkeeper but shh don’t tell). We are halfway through our season with a record of 8-2-2; 8 wins, 2 ties, and 2 losses. We are currently ranked third in our division and we are incredibly proud of that especially seeing how we were given a new coach this year. Nonetheless, we still did it, and we continue to do so.
It is easy to say that without soccer, my life would be nothing. I don’t know where I would be. I love it more than life itself and the competitive drive to win is what keeps me going. I can honestly say that there is nothing in my life that has made more of an impact than soccer.
Well, there you have it. You now know the three most important aspects of my life; faith, love, and soccer. I hope you enjoyed learning a little about me and I’ll see you soon for post #2 of my editorial takeover.
Thanks for reading, I’m Alex, and this is the Modern Typewriter, OUT.
