A Sickness nobody can see spreading but everyone gets it

Bad moods are like a sickness. One person gets it first then eventually everyone has it. We are so hyped up doing good then it comes, everyone hates swimming and wants to go home. Our coach has had to pull some of us out of the meet are keep us away from everybody else just so that it doesn't spread. We could lose the meet, lose swimmers or even worse make mike mad. Once he is mad there is no getting out. It effects your entire week. Once you feel like this there is no way to change it.

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High Expectations are the only thing that might just save you. They are the motivation that everyone needs. Think, you want to reach your goals, you want to achieve something great. Expectations, wether they are from your parents or your coaches, or even yourself, they push you to do your best no matter how your feeling. I wish I had learned about the presence of this sickness earlier. I can only imagine what I could have achieved instead of failing all the expectations around me. Only, recently has my coach started to actually do something about it. He sees how people are feeling even when they try to hide it. He explains it like this, and snakes tail can grow back again and again. Unless you cut of the head, the head being in this case, the first person to feel bad about swimming. He sends them home before the meet is even over.