Playing a Big Role

Playing a Big Role
The breaking glass, the crumbling metal and the piercing sounds changed my life in a matter of seconds. The day of my car accident there was only one person truly there for me and that is my mentor. The person playing the role as my mentor, my friend, and my shoulder to lean on is my father. Through every tough time in my life from learning to tie my shoes to applying for college, my father has been there helping me through it all. I trust my father with every piece of advice he gives me because I know that it’s from the bottom of his heart, and he would never want to see me go through what he has gone though. Every time I sit down with my dad he doesn’t just hear me, he listens to me and relates to my problems no matter how busy he may be. The advice that my dad gives me is something that I will use every day of my life and something that I will pass down to my own children to help them through their problems.
Growing up my father was always there for me, especially when it came to sports. My dad was always involved in sports whether he was playing or simply watching it on the TV. The development we lived in had a volunteer softball team, and he was one of the best on the team. Very rarely did their team lose, but when they did my dad was the only one on the team that didn’t have a frown on his face or anger in his eyes. He taught me that whether you win or you lose you are always a good sport and never disrespect the other team in sports and out of sports. Seeing the love that my dad had for this sport was what got me involved in softball and to eventually fall in love with the sport. Every single night after dinner my dad and I would go out and throw the ball around, we talked about everything that had happened in our day good and bad. Those catches were the highlight of my day and what I would look forward to every single night.
As I got older it was time for me to find a job and start to save up money to get a car. I live in a small...