Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5: Fate " You guys have a lot of potential, but there are no guarantees of success. This season is like an open book, and you guys must write the pages," said our soccer coach ,Mr. Ziminski, during pre-season. These few words inspired my fellow teammates and I to work at new and even higher level to achieve our goal of a successful season. We believed in our coach's words, we controlled our own destiny; the only way we can achieve our goal of a successful season would be to work extremely hard before the actual season starts. In contradictory to the beliefs of my teammates