Joseph C. 4M

The Candy House

I have many passions. I have some that I think are exquisite and lure me in like the candy house in Hansel and Gretel.

Sports, is one of the many things I am passionate about. When I play sports I feel as athletic as a cheetah. There are many sports I like but I have three favorites, football, basketball and soccer. When I am playing soccer, I feel like I’m in my own world. When I’m in this place nobody can get me out, call me for homework, get me for dinner or do anything. It’s like I’m in two different worlds.

Football is another sport I completely adore. Even though I have been playing for about two years, it feels like I have been playing football my whole life. It seems to me that watching football helps me gain new ideas to play. Football to me is more mental than physical. I think it is more important to be happy and lose, than to win the game and be sad.

I like basketball because it feels like I’m floating away into the hoop and suddenly dropping through the hoop. When I play basketball I feel as graceful as a ballerina; shooting around without a care in the world. In my opinion James Naismith, the creator of basketball, is one of the smartest people ever, even though originally, basketball was only a volleyball and a peach basket.    

Reading is something else that blows me away. Once I start a good book I can never put it down. It drops me into a pit that takes my life into world of monsters, goblins and gods. My favorite fantasy book is the Serpents Shadow which is a superb book about Egyptian gods. Fantasy is a very interesting genre in my opinion even though it is not realistic.

Non-fiction makes me as smart as Albert Einstein. When I am bored I read this genre and I am jubilant. I love reading about animals because I like to read about the many different types of them.   I like to read picture books as well. They are funny and live up to their name. Reading to me is something else. You can read more than five different genres and reading makes me feel ecstatic.

Passions are great things to have and I am so happy I have so many of them. Passions make me smart as Albert Einstein ,athletic as a cheetah and as graceful as a ballerina.