Happiness or Settling For Less

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and every practice, and each time I was on the ice, I played as hard as I could for those couple of minutes. I thought that I would always be a hockey player, no matter who tried to tell me that I couldn’t or shouldn’t play. I played for about seven years, and the majority of those years I spent in an all girls league. The first few seasons in the girl’s league were extremely fun; I made many new friends and had great coaches. I loved playing hockey because I was the only one out of my friends that played, so I felt unique when I told people I was a hockey player. I felt like it was kind of against the grain of society, and I liked that I was one of the only girls I knew that played. Like Jane, I was doing what I loved with no intention of stopping. Jane loved to write because it freed her mind and made her feel better from her illness. She tried to keep a journal on a daily basis with her thoughts, feelings, and things that were happening in her life. Keeping a journal was a ...

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any longer. Knowing that was enough for me to be influenced by what my parents thoughts were, and I ended up making the decision to stop playing hockey. It was undoubtedly hard for me to make that decision, but I felt that pleasing others was more important and easier than doing what made me happy. Jane faces the same dilemma that I did. She loved to write in her journal, but her husband John did not allow her to, claiming that it would only make her medical condition worse. She had no choice but to listen to her husband’s demands, as that was what women were supposed to do in that time. The only time she was able to pursue her personal desire to write was when John left her isolated in a ...

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