Should I Have?

i often wonder if i should have played high school basketball. i love to play basketball, and always played when i was younger. i played all the way through middle school, even for the east middle school team. I liked to play, but it was so hard to do with football being pretty much year round. once i was at the high school i decided that i was not going to play, and instead focus on football and be in the weight room a lot. my parents really wanted me to play but i did not have the desire. they understood because basketball starts as soon as football season is over so therefore i would not have had any break at all. i often think and ask myself if i will regret it. the deeper i think about it though, and the more i look back i realize that i probably won't. the reason for this is because being in the weight room, and focusing more on football helped make me a better athlete in the long run.