Lacrosse- My artifact that played a huge role in shaping me into who I am today is the experience I had in the sport of lacrosse during my years in high school. Playing a team sport really showed me how much teamwork is needed and a failure of it can be a huge problem for the team. This picture was from my senior year where we had many troubles and fought a lot between ourselves and it hurt the team dynamic. We faltered that year and lost some important games that we could have won if we only bonded more and worked as a team better. I will never forget this experience and I feel that it has made me a better team player. Losing those games that we should have easily won but couldn’t because of fighting really showed me the power of team dynamics.
Video games- Another large artifact of my life is video games, especially the PlayStation 3. They have played a huge part in my life and I would not be the same person without them. This was my first gaming console that I can really remember playing, and I spent so much time with it. I would play my brothers in everything and I grew up with this. I remember distinctly when we first got it and setting it up to play in our basement, I’ll never forget the feeling of it starting up and all of us cheering. This really started me into videogames and made me love them, and now it is one of my biggest hobbies. Now this system is very old, coming out in the early 2000’s and it really shows its age. It is bulky and loud and the graphics for the games are terrible, but I keep this artifact with me because it reminds me of growing up and all the fun time that I had, and I genuinely feel that I would not be anywhere near the same if it was not for that system.