Life Without Sports

My life has completely changed without sports. My life has changed not only physically but mentally and socially. Sports have been played through not one but two World Wars. As well as the influenza pandemic in 1918 during the world series. COVID-19 is not only affecting me personally but the entire world and everyone in it. 

Having no sports has impacted my life so heavily on the physical level. I went from having baseball practice and games six times a week as well as mandatory lifts twice a week to sitting around unable to go outside. Trying to go from sitting around doing nothing, unable to practice and workout because of a lack of machines or weights, to trying to pick it all back up again and get back into the swing of things is going to be hard. Not only for me but for the people who are either working from home or are out of work temporarily. I am unable to go out and see my friends or even swing a bat really. My dad was a first responder for 9/11 and has very serious respiratory issues so I have to be careful with who I see and what I touch and make sure I’m always washing my hands for his mine and his sake especially. I don’t watch much regular TV but if I am I’m most likely watching a baseball or football or even a basketball game. So not only am I bored around the house but there isn’t much for me to watch on TV. 

Without sports my life is also affected mentally. A month ago I was in a good state of mind. I had everything going good from school work and grades to baseball, I was playing well and the team was feeling good. When the news officially broke that our season had ended the entire team including myself were all in shock and depressed, we thought it was all a dream. Right at that moment my mental state went downhill. I knew for a fact we were going to have to continue classes online, although online classes sound easier or are easier for some, I prefer in person classes. Without having baseball or classes I was honestly concerned with what I was going to do with all my free time and how I was going to handle being stuck in quarantine. A week into online classes and I immediately see and feel the change in classes. Nothing is taken as seriously, and for some classes when we were back on campus had barely given out any work to do and now that we are online every single professor of mine has loaded me up and it is a little overwhelming to be honest.    

My social life has also been impacted by life with no sports. Being unable to go outside and talk to or even see my friends is not fun. When I’m home my everyday life consists of seeing my friends and playing basketball or football or even working outside with some of them. This summer I was supposed to play in a league out in the hamptons with a team of a bunch of random guys I’ve never met or even heard of and now I might not get the chance to even meet them. Going to the supermarkets is very weird too, the roads are completely empty but as soon as you get to the store there’s a line just to enter the store because it is so crowded. 

Life without sports is really taking a toll on a good portion of this world. This disease has ruined many sports moments forever. It could possibly end the rest of the NBA season including playoff and championship and could possibly cut down baseball to only 60-70 games instead of 162. Something good for sports has to happen soon for the sake of today’s world and how much it impacts it.