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A video of me and my teammate messing around between games during zone. 

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I was selected to play for the zone team.

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This is a picture of the U18 state team, they gave me motivation to work harder, to be better, to catch up to them and prove anyone who had doubts wrong. 

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We came second, but it was worth trying our hardest even till the last point.

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The three best passers on the team, last point of the match, you can feel the tension in the picture. 

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In contrast to the other timetable, this one is for the juniors, coaching them came with other responsibilities like these.

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My first pair of serious shoes i bought, unluckily, the outsole of the shoe was transparent, meaning it picks up significant amounts of dust and if preferably only played on super clean courts, which my school didn't have. I gave these away to a close friend. 

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This is a tournament timetable, they usually released these the night before. Sometimes we would think the opponents would be an easy match, sometimes the opposite, most of the time they were always tough to verse. 

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This is when i started getting more into shoes and how I looked on court. Look good feel good. 

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I ended up fixing my form. I also started jumping higher. 

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This photo is from the internet. Our team, prior to versing another school, searched their facilities to know which shoes to wear there. With indoor shoes, wearing them on dirt or a bad court can permanently ruin the grip on them so we had to plan ahead. Luckily their courts were fine and we wore our proper shoes. 

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Realized I had to make some adjustments to my form haha

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I started coaching the juniors and found quickly I was really good at it. My old captain Kevin, would coach before me but the juniors always told me they preferred me.

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My last game I played, my junior took this photo, and it made me truly feel and realize that I had that captain energy, which I doubted multiple times. Throughout my journey I struggled with the relationships with my peers, often I felt as if they didn't consider me a captain, which I kept to myself, however looking back, looking at this photo, I proved myself wrong.

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As insignificant as it may seem, these particular socks were the only sock i wore during volleyball, I went through at least 10 pairs a year, they hold significant value to me and convinced me they made me play better, like a lucky charm. They were $25 a pair so you can imagine how much I spent on them. 

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Our first medal was an extremely important point in my journey, it got me hooked to the sport. 

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This is my first coach at school, Mr Banks, he's the one who got me into volleyball and treated me almost like his own son, until he had to leave schools for personal issues and left to QLD. This photo was a bereal and we tricked him into taking this photo of himself. 

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This photo is from the drive back from SVL (Sydney Volleyball League), SVL was an extremely important point in my volleyball journey since SVL is the standard of volleyball players, you represent a club and play for Sydney, if you ask any state player how to get better they'll advise you to join a club. 

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The sunsets after training were almost like a reward. A reminder of why I'm doing what I'm doing.

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The day I tore my ACL everything came shattering down, I went from having extremely high ambitions to 0 in the span of a few hours, I was told I would never be able to jump the same again and that I needed surgery. I though that I could bounce back like all those stories you heard on the internet of doctors telling someone they can't do something but they end up doing it anyway, I was wrong. After completely healing, for a whole 5 months I tried to get back into the same shape I was in before I tore it, to be like those stories I saw online, but slowly, I learnt to accept what had happened to me, to move on. From then on I lived by the principle of "Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own," encouraging accepting and embracing whatever circumstances life presents, rather than resisting them, a quote by Marcus Aurelius . Every journey does eventually end, archives are the only thing we have to prove these journeys happened, live in the moment, because you don't realize the days you're living are the "good ol days" until they end.

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I'm assuming that the "visions of Gideon" can represent the great joy of having been involved in something beautiful yet temporary (as was felt through a victory against enemies through Gideon's life) and/or the confidence that the relationship was a real thing contrasting something as detached as a video that you can only watch and not physically experience (like the confidence Gideon received through signs or "visions" in his assured victory over the enemies). I gave my all to volleyball, finding so much joy and confidence in the sport. Like Gideon receiving his visions, I felt a sense of assurance and purpose on the court. The victories felt like a sign that I was where I was meant to be. But just as Gideon's triumph was temporary, a beautiful, impactful moment in time, my volleyball journey eventually had to come to an end. It's a sad reality to let go of something you poured so much into, but the song reminds me that even when something ends, life moves on. Just like the closing scene of the movie, the music shows us that we have to continue, no matter how tough the experience was. The memories and the growth stay with me, a vision of the joy I once had, and that's something I'll always cherish.

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Sufjan Stevens - Call Me By Your Name (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Call Me By Your Name (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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This is a photo of me and my senior after training, it was an unprompted photo and we didn't plan it but looking back, we both knew we did it because he was graduating soon. He taught me that playing wasn't just to get better, some people played for fun, and they were genuinely trying their hardest. He taught me not to get mad at my teammates since most likely they're trying to do their best.