Please?

Is it so wrong to want this sometime/where in my future...On the weekends maybe?

Balloons

While driving through the mountains of Mexico for our weekly trip to San Miguel De Allende last week, I thought extensively about how to answer the frequent question regarding my decision to continue playing soccer following such a traumatic injury: "is it really worth it?". While I have spent the last nine months trying to answer this question myself, it was a relief to finally reach some clarity, which I am happy to say applies to every aspect of not only my life, but that of most human beings.

I chose to lay it out visually, imagining myself as a simple stick figure. From there I imagined numerous balloons stemming from the top of my head and the surface of my geometric shoulders and arms. These balloons each represent a different part of my life, not so much the physical things that I own and admire, but the figurative pieces of my life that energize me and keep me going, keep me upright. Some of the balloons attached to my head would represent the following:

-Soccer (I thought I would list this first since it sparked the idea)

-My family (the newest addition in particular, baby Tallulah is without a doubt a wonderfully bright light in my life)

-Writing

-Travel

-Good food

-The physical act of drawing and creating

-The list continues in greater detail, but I think you get the point.

When I thought more about it, all of the people who I know who appear to be bitter, mean, and unhappy, lack an abundance of these "balloons". Now I may have only been suffering from extreme boredom, therefore thought this was a good idea, or it might be that we should consider a person's balloons, or lack there of, before jumping to conclusions about their behavior.

To answer my, and a handful of other people's question, taking the necessary steps to continue playing soccer is "worth it" still because I am not ready to clip the string of that balloon nor has it frayed, it is still full of air and contributing to holding me upright.

Another Angle

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