you can come watch a practice of ours if you don't distract anybody.
[the rest of it -- gives Rin pangs in his chest. he remembers being younger, and not thinking he'd ever match up to stunning natural talents, like Haru, like the boys he swam with abroad, who has bigger frames and longer arms and legs, and always left him coughing up water]
[he'd had to work hard to surpass those gifted with natural advantages, and it's made him a stronger competitor mentally and physically. he understands, now, why Hinata's love for volleyball is so fierce -- he's had to earn his place in that world, every step of the way, and you didn't do that for something you didn't love]
people with natural ability are amazing, but hard work is what gets you to the international stage. being tall is better in swimming, too, but i'm not gonna let some six foot guy, or some guy who's always had it easy, take first place from me.
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[the rest of it -- gives Rin pangs in his chest. he remembers being younger, and not thinking he'd ever match up to stunning natural talents, like Haru, like the boys he swam with abroad, who has bigger frames and longer arms and legs, and always left him coughing up water]
[he'd had to work hard to surpass those gifted with natural advantages, and it's made him a stronger competitor mentally and physically. he understands, now, why Hinata's love for volleyball is so fierce -- he's had to earn his place in that world, every step of the way, and you didn't do that for something you didn't love]
people with natural ability are amazing, but hard work is what gets you to the international stage. being tall is better in swimming, too, but i'm not gonna let some six foot guy, or some guy who's always had it easy, take first place from me.
you better not either.