Briana Sanchez
September 14, 2014
I Believe in Self-Confidence
I believe in self-confidence. Something more than just a term or phrase, it is something
beyond the physical or even the mental. They say “Don’t trust anybody but yourself”, but what
do you do when you are not able to trust your own abilities, capacities, and judgment? When we
can no longer have the belief that we can meet the demands of a task? It’s something everybody
believes to be in control of, when really we just build it up to knock it back down.
Entering high school was a new beginning. Although I expected things to change, I did
not expect I would lose my self-confidence. I play soccer with a team I’ve played with my whole
10 years that I’ve played the sport. We we’re a total of six players that went to the same high
