All things are difficult before they are easy - Arnav Chandna

You can’t climb the last step before climbing the first step. Can you? When babies are born they don’t suddenly start walking. First the crawl, next they learn to stand and finally they start to walk. This explains that everything is not easy the first time (step). Things start to get easy after you’ve learned them completely (last step). Similarly, “all things are difficult before they are easy.” I’m just 11 years old but there have been many events in my life that prove all things are difficult before they are easy. For instance when I’m learning skills, when I’m beginning to play video games and when I was representing my house (adventurers) the first time in a sports day (2014-15).

     Firstly I would like to share my experience of learning the one of the hardest skill in Football. It’s named the “Rainbow.” Also really few professional football players have managed to do this skill in a real football match.

Rainbow a combination of 7 colours in the sky. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. Made out of rain drops and rays of the sun.

Rainbow is an extremely hard skill in Football. It is used to get past a player, by kicking the ball over him, in a fancy way. It’s called the Rainbow because the ball goes over the player exactly in the shape of a rainbow (semi-circle).

         I was actually not at all interested in learning a rainbow because I had never seen it in a match. Next I heard my father talk about one of my friends, who is younger then me and can do a rainbow.

      That’s when I woke up. All the power of completing the rainbow went inside me. My eyes were filled with fire and I was ready to start the battle,

Did you know the learning the learning of this skill also led me to take away 2 hours of my playing time every day.
    I was angry and didn’t give up for 2 weeks. I slowly started to lose my faith in learning a rainbow. A lot of irritation started to get collected in my mind. This was because I wasn’t jumping to the next step.

   The ball should have gone ahead of me. But for some reason, it was going behind. While my right leg was in front of my left leg.

     

Those 3 weeks literally seemed like a year. Then after a bit, just for the fun of it I put my left leg in front of my right leg. Guess what? Obviously it didn’t work. But it gave me an intension that this tricks to do a rainbow.

       Soon I actually started to practice with my left leg in front of my right leg. This became such a big task, that it actually led me to start watching YouTube videos “How to do a Rainbow.” I was doing things I couldn’t have even imagined.

         Then finally it was the day, after 4 weeks of hard work, determination and dedication. I still remember, I put a chair in front of me and assumed it was the opponent. I put my left leg in front of my right leg and started. The ball, it wasn’t behind me! Then after 50 milliseconds or so the ball bounced right in front of me.

     I couldn’t believe it. It was a miracle or maybe even a dream. Next I jumped, screamed “I did it!!!” “I did it!!!”

       Today whenever I see a football the first thing that comes in my mind is a rainbow. Trust me, when I finish it. I actually start to wonder why this skill is known as the hardest skill in Football.

Secondly, this whole story, which I’m sharing with you, might sound like a funny incident with loads of laughter. But believe me, it’s a big thing to me. I would like to share a story on how I mastered one of the best video games in the world “Jetpack Joyride”

       Jetpack Joyride is my favourite game. The game with a boy stealing a jetpack in the science lab. You are controlling the character who stole the jetpack. if you just touch the iPad screen you’ll fly up because of the Jetpack. The longer you touch the iPad screen the more you’ll stay in the air. Next like this you’ve to get past electric poles, dodge missiles and the laser. Also on the other hand you have missions to complete. Every 3 mission’s completion will take you to the next level.

        So first my friend Aniket recommended me to download Jetpack Joyride. Since he was of my best friends I downloaded the game.

         The tutorial was difficult for me. I didn’t know about the missiles or laser. But anyway I was not comfortable with the electric poles itself. I didn’t even know that I am going to come across the missiles and the laser.

          Then Aniket said that a bit later in the game I am going to meet the missiles and the laser. I was shocked. Not at all ready for that at all.

It was a very hard game and I didn’t even try to keep playing Jetpack Joyride. Until Aniket challenged me purposely after looking at my difficulties in this game. I wasn’t ready for a Jetpack Joyride challenge, but, even not ready to deny the challenge. So I played with him and, I got whooped, his score was 1000meters and mine was just 200meters.

        This loss a lot to me, a lot of pain. It also created hunger to win any battle in Jetpack Joyride. Especially against Aniket!!

         Jetpack Joyride was scheduled in my timetable. I played it when I was bored, free in other words when I was jobless.

         In fact, this also made me realize that I’m the most inconsistent in my Jetpack Joyride scores. 200m, 700m, 300m, 900m, 200m, 800m, and then to 300m.

         I played this game so much, maybe that’s the reason why I like it so much today. I slowly could also see my improvement towards Jetpack Joyride. Before I was touching 200m a lot. Now 300m was my rarest score. The most I was getting was roughly 550m. Next I got 700m.

       

But I wasn’t satisfied, I wanted to go ahead of 1057m (aniket’s accurate score). Then after my 700m score believe it or not my score was 1109. I screamed “Yeah!!!” Now I was ready to challenge him.

        I called him to my house and we started the challenge. It was his chance first and ended up with a score of 1266 to be precise. It was my chance now, it was a good start but with a lot of tension. After a bit I was able to cross 1000m. Next when I was touching 1075m, I sneezed, I got really freaked out.

      When I got back to my game senses. I looked at my score first 1150m. When, I looked at my character, there was an electric pole!! I pressed the iPad screen really hard and somehow got past the electric pole. But there was a missile!! It came in full speed and I was killed in no time! I closed my eyes after I died.

     I gradually opened my eyes and I saw, the number 1-2-73 “1273!!” I shouted “Yes!!” “Yeah!!” I couldn’t believe it, I had won!!!! I could see Aniket controlling his tears and he could see my screaming in joy.

     Then after 1 week, I finally understood why this game was the first option in top charts, app store in my iPad. Also surprisingly it’s one of the easiest video game for me today. Can you believe it!!!

Thirdly I’m going to talk about my experience in the 2014-15 sports day. Nervousness is probably my biggest problem, maybe its present in everybody. I’m pretty sure you felt nervous or you feel nervous, whenever you’re going to have a big race or a match, representing your house or school. Anyway today I’ve got past that challenge, but I would like to share how I got past that problem.

     We all have difficult challenges in anyway. My challenge was a part of a school event, for which everyone lives for. The day that everybody waits for, yes you’re right Sports Day!!!

     I love sports and 2014-15 sports day was like my sports day. I had a chance to show how good I am in athletics.  It was my first sports day in which I had got selected in 3 events 100m, 200m and 100*4 relay.

     But as usual I was very nervous, because it was my first time and I had very good competition (there were really good competitors to challenge me). In 100m I was supposed to be the 3^rd best and in 200m 4^th best. Surprisingly in all my races, everyone had an experience of racing at least once while representing their house or school.

 Hence it was a big disadvantage for me. I had only represented my house once, but it was an open-event (anyone can participate).

    So at that particular moment, the only thing that managed to encourage me was my parent’s quote which was said one night before the sports day. They said “It’s okay if you don’t win a medal, participation is a big thing, and we are very proud of you.”

    It calmed me down a lot, but it also made me realize that they are not expecting a medal from me. Then I started to get annoyed, irritated and angry and began to lose my nervousness and develop a lot of faith in winning a gold medal.

   My nervousness started to decrease when I heard my own friends that I’ve high possibilities of winning a medal. Even though it was my first time participating in races like this.

    Finally it was the moment for 200m. My nervousness and my anger, irritation decreased. Moving on, I was given the outermost track. Not really good, but winning a medal was possible.

    The whistle blew, we began sprinting. I almost threw up, but after I had sprinted 50m, I was fine. I was also in the lead. There were no thoughts in my mind while I was running the whole 200m.

    I was leading, 150m were over, and suddenly out of nowhere Arnav Rakkith overtook me easily. The race ended, I was placed 2^nd. At the end of the race I was breathing heavily and feeling normal, not sad nor happy. I wasn’t feeling happy because I didn’t win the race. Not sad because Arnav Rakkith was in my house.

      Next after 1and a half hours it was time for the 100m race. Since I already have an experience of 1 race, I wasn’t as nervous as before. 

      5 minutes before the race started, I wanted to use the restroom urgently. I was wearing spikes, so I would slip on granite and the closest restroom was in the senior block ( I had to walk on granite) . It was very risky to jog/ run on granite but I still went.  

      In the end I managed to reach the field before my race started. But while coming and vice versa I had slipped 3 times. 

     We soon started sprinting I wasn’t in the lead, I was coming 2^nd . Guess what? Arnav Rakkith was in the lead. In the results Arnav Rakkith came 1^st and I was second again.

   Then finally my last event 100x4 medally relay. I was not at all nervous for the event, very tired. I still managed to give my house a lead by roughly 10 milliseconds. Any way the lead didn’t stay for long.

    Even in the 100x4 relay we came second, I had earned my 3^rd my silver medal.

  I was very happy with my performance but not happy with my house overall results  we came 3^rd .  I went back home with 3 silver medals.

    In the beginning of 200m I was very nervous. But in the 100x4 relay, I wasn’t nervous at all. This proves that all things are difficult before they are easy.

    Conclusively, these 3 occasions in my life are enough to prove that everything isn’t easy the first time. I am pretty sure that there have been many occasions in your life that prove all things are difficult before they are easy.