Hockey - The End is Near

This is it, the last two games are left in, possibly, my last hockey season, I am not ready for the end and although I know it is close I continue to do my best. It is only at this moment in time that I realized how important hockey is to me, it's my drug, a drug I cannot live without and it will be practically impossible to find a sport, which gives me dramatic peaks of adrenaline, pain that you learn to overcome and the taste of victory, sweeter than any wine, when won against the odds. The speed and the hard hits are impossible to forget, the competition is always high, but so is the reward; this sport does not take kindly to those of cowardly nature, neither to those who do not know the meaning of sacrifice. This sport has taught me to work with others it has taught me to live up to the challenge with the words "never back down" playing in my head,  it showed me my strengths and my weaknesses, on my long path I have encountered obstacles, which developed new skills and made me undertake new challenges and I have shown that I was worthy of moving on. This sport is practically my whole life now and I will take any chance to keep it.