What Hockey Meant
Playing a sport has many different meanings to people dependent on what their ulterior motive is for playing that sport. Whether they are pursuing the sport for the sake of a career, as an escape from reality, or simply for the sheer enjoyment that can be derived from being a part of something bigger. From my experience in sports, I would say that I was trying to escape from the real world in order to feel like I could belong to something larger. I would have a brief stint in baseball that would eventually become solely focused on the sport of hockey. That is not to say that I did not enjoy baseball, but hockey felt more free of constraint. By pursuing hockey for years I was able to not only learn about the outside world, but I was able to figure out more of what hockey had meant to me as a person. Hockey was not my first love because I was already in baseball and I did not know much of the games existence until my older brother had started to play. Even though this was only his fir...