Q-Piece

So our class had to pick a quintessential object (something we couldn't live without), then talk about it. This is what I came up with:

There are many objects in my life that I need in order to function, and picking only one of them seems impossible. But if I had to pick one of them, I would have to say that my wrestling headgear is my quintessential object. As a wrestler, I need to wear headgear that covers my ears into all of my matches as a safety precaution, so without headgear, you cannot wrestle. So ever since I first bought it, I have essentially worn my headgear for every match I was ever in. At first glance, it seems like a standard, beaten-up headgear that is no different from any other wrestling headgear on the market, but it has so much more significance than that. It has protected my ears from countless vicious elbows and knees and has been there when I achieved fantastic victories and suffered from heartbreaking losses. My headgear also isn’t something that is so easily found and I've only seen one other person use it. Its straps wrap perfectly around my head, and although I have tried multiple types of headgear, my headgear is the only one that I have ever felt truly comfortable in. I guess you could call it my soul mate in headgear. To me, my headgear is like a basketball player’s lucky pair of shoes, or a tennis player’s favorite racquet; I seem to wrestle a lot better with my headgear. In essence, my headgear pushes me to greater heights than I could reach with any other headgear. Whether or not this performance boost is mental, the connection I have with my headgear will propel me through wrestling for as long as its stitches hold against time.