I believe in Second Chances

“America’s greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.”

-Anthony Walton

When was the last time you have seen somebody get a second chance? I got one a couple of weeks ago. That is what I believed before this incident with baseball.

It was the first day of school baseball tryouts. I tried to keep calm as the day slowly ticked by. The day finally ended and I slowly walked down the stairwell to the boy’s locker room. I slowly fumbled on my shirt and slid on my baseball pants ready for the tryout. The tryout went well at the beginning, but when I had to make a hard throw something horrible happened. The ball was released out through my fingers and a pain ran up my hand and made my whole hand go numb. The throw barely went half way to first base. The day after that, I dropped out of tryouts.

A week later I was awarded a second chance. The doctor told me that I could keep playing. I pitched three weeks later and kept going with the sport even through injury. I learned a new lesson after that day. I learned that only good people deserve a second chance. Many people are caught for doing crimes every day. There are only a few hopeful people who have a heart or a piece of good in them.

Many people can debate this and believe in different views, I believe in what I am saying. About 4% of the people in death row get released. I believe that those people will live the rest of their lives in peace and happiness. I believe in second chances but only for those who have a heart to believe in one. If you can think about a time when someone you know got a second chance you know they must have a heart