05.25.07
Pain in order to heel
It’s been about five months now since my heal started to bother me. Since then, I have missed many days of training and many miles that could have seriously benefited to my performances thus far. It’s hard to accept such a condition. Having never really been injured myself, I don’t know how to deal with the situation other then wait it out and hope that things will soon get better. Fighting through pain is one thing, but fighting with your head is even harder. In a situation like this one, there are many choices in front of me. Most of them do not have a happy ending. Influences are strong and it seems like I’m coming at the end of my rope on this one. Or so I thaught ! For the past three days, things are starting to change. My heal is all of a sudden, starting to heel. It’s too early for me to say that things are turning in the right direction, but in a sense, they really are! Why is it that we often need something bad to see what is good? There are so many things that relate to this: why do we need rain to enjoy the sunshine? why do we need solitude to enjoy company? why do we need thirst to enjoy water? and why do we need pain to feel better? There is a good quote in the new batman movie, “Why do we fall”? The answer is, “So we can learn to pick oursleves back up”! I think that this is true of many things. You can either stay on the ground or pick yourself back up and learn not to fall in such a way ever again. It took a bad water pit to teach me this. This past tuesday, I fell on a water jump. I was coming full speed at the hurdle and my foot slipted, I hit my tibia on the hurdle and fell face first in the pit. Two things could have happened right then and there. Either I was going to feel sorry for myself and dress my bruised body, or I would stand right back up, get back to the line and make that water jump. It happened in a flash!!! I didn’t even think. I saw black and I wanted to see light. I got back on the line and made that jump. Ever since that day, my heel is getting better everyday and I am hopeful that I might actually win over this injury. There will always be hurdles to clear in my life and sometimes, I will fall. But if a get right back up after everyone of those hurdles, I will learn never to fall again.
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