broke my collar bone when i was two, i was leaing on the inside of the car door and banging on the window with my hand, and my brother opened up the door, causing me to fall on the garage floor. Then I had a nice long period when I didn't break anything, till I was thirteen and broke my foot falling down the stairs. Next major injury wasn't a broken bone, but it hurt just as much (torn ligament in my knee) at a volleyball practice (beach, it was the summer) i was running to get the ball, all of a sudden my knee locked up, then snapped backwards, I just collapsed instantly, barely able to breathe, then the coach and our trainer carried me off the court, and within a minute it was already turing purple and my team was trying to guess what color it was gonna turn next. that kept me from playing for the rest of the summer (I was fourteen when that happened). Sprained my ankle about a dozen times, hyperextended the muscles in my arm at the elbow, had to keep my arm bent and not move it for about a week. And I've permanently messed up my shoulders, giving me chronic pinched nerves in my back sending horrible. crippling pains up my neck and down my arms. These last ones are all from volleyball, and skiing has permanently messed up my knees too, so every once in a while i have to pop a fair amount of painkillers if I want to ski a whole day.
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass.
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