Love/Hate

Should I have spoken up when my teammates used that word?

Mateo Askaripour

Dec 13, 2018·6 min read

Man, I was tired. Tired from running up and down soccer fields in Poughkeepsie like a madman, chasing boy after boy, ball after ball. I was 13, and it was my ability to run, paired with unrestrained aggression, that had earned me a spot on the team. But on that day —…