My name is Enescu Cosmin but you can call me “Cosmo” I am 21 years old I am from Romania and I want to talk about my life, well some part of it, mostly when I had some extra-activities besides school.
First things first, I was 14 and I was uncontrollable, I didn’t had control, I was agitated about everything, I didn’t had control of my actions, lots of energy and no activity, no stress I was actually a kid even though I was thinking that I am independent. One day my parents came with an idea to do an activity to occupy my time and they had the idea to take dancing lessons. To be honest I was so mad so angry because they told me what to do, but after many attempts I got convinced and went for the first day to see what happens there. When I arrived there I saw all the groups training, nice moves, and kind and active people and started to like it. So the second time I went back there I started meeting new people one of my novice groups and the trainers. They said that we would take part in a dance here at school in 2 months so we needed to prepare. Well I did dancing for 2 and half years maybe 3 and then, with competitions with stage dancing with stage fright, with applause, with hard work, with lot of stress and motivation and cursing, some of the people left, we met new people, new groups; but at one point I started to put dancing above school so I stopped going at practicing, because of the grades and my parents so at the end I quit. I know that was a harsh decision but that was it.
After the dancing phase that I had and I really loved it, I stopped again doing something with my free time, I started getting lazier and lazier, and that couldn’t be possible. From a disciplined life, from be part of a team, no I was with my best friends at a pub and drinking and I put myself in my quite tipsy condition: “What am I doing”? , and I excused myself, and called my cousin, he is a water-polo coach and talked with him to help me do water-polo or at least try. He said ok, tomorrow morning at 8 I needed to be there, and of course I was. I had a big plus because from the age of 5 I swim every summer. So the basics where simple the hard part was the shooting the equilibrium and the condition, it was much harder than dancing, but with lot of motivation and lot of passion. I managed to learn, even though the first 3 months I was complete failure. I trained 1 more hour after the program, by myself, maybe with another member to improve everything, just to get the first team.
This period in my life had a great impact and it is really hard to share it because, thinking about it gives me the chills. We all have that period in the past that we want to forget but most importanly, now growing up, I can say that these kinds of periods defined our character, our mentality to view things and to make decisions.