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Tolerance
__Tolerance can be hard to explain.__ It’s different for everyone. It’s based mostly on opinion. For example, I have to tolerate school, sports, and coaches for those sports every day. Although depending on your lifestyle, you may have to tolerate different things. My life is mainly focused on these things.

__During school, I have to strive to get my work done, and make sure it’s on time.__ I plan on going to college, which means that I need to get good grades. So therefore, I have to tolerate the work that our teachers give us. Like right now, I’m writing this essay that’s due tomorrow, while in the mean time I still have an autobiography chapter due tomorrow which I still have to write, along with some algebra homework and its like 8 p.m.. And I know that the homework only gets worse in high school. I tolerate doing the homework for school, because I want to be successful. I have to mainly find time to do this homework. Because I play a lot of sports, finding that time can sometimes be difficult.

__I play sports year round. And let me tell you, the refs aren't all that great.__ Especially in middle school. (that’s one thing I’m looking forward to for high school) However, even though they aren’t the greatest, we still have to tolerate them. They may make some... or a lot of bad calls. However, we still have to accept their bad calls. Along with the coaches. For example, our last basketball game we played Jonesville. Their coach was annoying in my opinion. She was always arguing with the refs and she even stopped the game to ask what the ref had called, which she would have known if she was paying attention. She was a little stuck up. Although, we condoned such behavior, and just went on playing the game.

__There was a player from Jonesville, who was always throwing herself into the ground.__ It seemed like she had her mind set that she was going to hit the ground every time she shot or when for the ball, or something. Anyway, this girl got a break away, and went straight for the bucket. But one of our girls were there to block. Although in the process she fouled her. And sure enough the Jonesville chick was throwing herself into the wall, which really wasn’t necessary. So that just made it look like the foul was harder than what it really was. Of __corse__ their coach was furious and demanded that we got a tactical for that. But the refs only gave her two shots. Which I thought was reasonable. However, their coach didn’t think so, after the game, and after the whole incident, the coach was still complaining to the ref! She was really quite disturbing. She just wouldn’t let it go, but we just let her do her arguing and we went about our business. We didn’t say anything to her because we were able to tolerate it.

__To tolerate someone, or even something, you don’t necessarily have to like it or them.__ You just have to basically deal with them. Like I hate homework, but I deal with it because I want to get a good education so I can hopefully go to college. I don’t exactly like every ref that we have ref-ing out games, but yet I deal with them so that we can get on with the game. Because I like playing sports. The coaches aren’t really the nicest people in the world, but I still respect them in a sense of individuality, she’s defiantly unique from the rest. It’s kind of like there’s always a reason for tolerating something.

4. She just wouldn't let go- But we just let her do her arguing and we went about our business.