So be resilient through everything as everything is temporary. Time itself is temporary. For example I am already reaching my last 2 years of college football and it flew. Majority of us living have no true purpose and if you could just get some idea of what your purpose is, you
Can live so much more free. In these times, humanity is in a desperate need of sustainability and bringing deeper meaning to our life. So I would start in finding something that you believe in. Once you give your life a foundation to always rely on, you will succeed.
I had attracted a sickness called Post- infectious encephalitis, a case where the body treats a normal cold like it's a virus and attacks its central nervous system. Pretty scary but I always knew I was going to be okay. The message I got from this was never get too comfortable.
Before I got into the hospital, I would wake up every morning with a "same thing, different day " mindset which is a mindset that can get you beat. It taught me that everything is about perspective, no matter what you are experiencing, someone out there is going through worse.
When I woke up to pee the next morning I fell out of my hospital bed because I could not walk. After falling, I spent the next 2 days resting and on the second day I realized I had my family with me so I was happy to see them but couldn't really show much emotion, I was too sick.
I was in the hospital I knew in the back of my mind I was going to be okay when this was all over. I ended up being right as on the 5th and 6th day I showed major progress and on the day that marked a week of in the hospital, I could finally walk again.
On my 4th day in the hospital I had my first physical therapy where I realized that I really couldn't walk. This truly broke me as I had thoughts that maybe I wouldn't ever play football again let alone walk but my mind wasn't going to let these thoughts win. The whole time
The next day on the 21st, I was emitted into the ER. Nothing was wrong with me the night or day before but for some reason when I woke up I had a sharp pain in the back of my head and weakness on the right side of my body. I drove myself to the school, told my athletic trainer
