I used to love sports

I used to love sports. I used to love to watch them, to read about them and to play them (although I really wasn't very good at much). It only made sense, then, that I went into sportswriting. But what I didn't realize when I got into it that sportswriting would drain my love of sports. Of course at first it was great, going to games and writing about them, but after a while it became like anything else...a job. It no longer was fun. It lost it's appeal to me. That became especially true once I got my dream job. Sports just weren't fun anymore. It took me a little a while that the sports and sportswriting (now this is just me specifically this doesn't hold true to all sports writers) were just my way of hanging onto my youth. I have such a hard time letting go of things in my life and this way definitely one of them. In fact I still have trouble with it. But there are some times when things are clear and I realize what's important in life -- enjoying yourself, being happy, loving, friends and family.